Sujet

'Mister your room rent's due', 1898. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

'Mister your room rent's due', 1898. Racist depiction of a 'mammy' presenting a bill for board to a diner: 'Mister your room rent's due I'm tired of supporting you'. Words by Burt Grant, music by Elmer Brown. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A07_394

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

73,5Mo (3,1Mo) / 38,0cm x 48,5cm / 4486 x 5730 (300dpi)

Mots clés

food female women woman people black male library job man men music arts country entertainment housing guy occupation tables headdress color design bill knives table dinner text location century profession print furniture score concept cutlery dining table dinner table language headscarf knife offensive knife and fork controversy African American African-American sheet music afro-american lettering headgear public library song boarding house controversial head-dress racism dining room table United States of America Colour vaudeville 19th century graphic design rent 1890s New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL racist American America USA landlady united states Unknown Mills Grant rented accommodation Heritage Art scores 19th-century Burt rooming house implied racism racial stereotype Elmer derogatory Notated music coon song F.A. Mills F.A. Frederick Allen Mills Frederick Allen Kerry Mills Kerry Elmer Bowman Bowman Elmer S. Bowman Elmer S. Burt Grant