Is you gwine hush when you spoke to, or is I bound to whup you befo' de school? / E. Potthast.

Caricature showing adult African Americans in a classroom with the elderly female teacher disciplining a man seated in the front row; a young girl stands on the left, in the foreground.

Label pasted on the upper left corner of front: 4372.
Inscribed in pencil on back: A Funny Little School, by Ruth McEnery Stuart, St. Nicholas, 25 : 45 (Nov. 1897) "Is you gwine hush when you spoke to, or is I bound to whup you befo' de school?"
Inscribed in black lithographic crayon on back: St. N. Q8926 ; 90082
Inscribed in blue pencil on back: 23 x 1667700 ; "Is you 'gwine hush?" ; 25 - 45 ; St. Nich Nov. '97.
Stamped on back: This picture has been reproduced, published and copyrighted by the Century Co., New York, and must not be again reproduced or published without their consent.
Stamped and inscribed in pencil on back: L.C. Fine Arts Division ; 350022.
(DLC/PP-1935:0022).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published in: "A Funny Little School" by Ruth McEnry Stuart, St. Nicholas, 25:45 (Nov. 1897).
Exhibited: "Eternal Summer : The Art of Edward Henry Potthast" at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2013 - September 2013.
BAR updated record 1989-1994.