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A skinner skinned / V. Ostenbach.
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Print shows an African American man seated on a stool in a shoemaker's shop; while trying on a boot he puts his foot through the bottom, knocking over himself, the stove behind him, and the stereotyped Jewish cobbler, who is hit in the nose with the sole of the boot. The cobbler exclaims, "Oh! mein gootness! der bottom ish knocked out."
P or D6118 U.S. Copyright Office.
Title appears as it was printed on the item.
Signed on stone: V. Ostenbach.
Copyright by Currier & Ives, N.Y.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5943
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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