Bar Thuldy's Statue: Liberty Frightenin de World

Currier & Ives|United States Mututal Accident Association

1886 · Color lithograph · Drawings and Prints

This racially caricatured "Statue of Liberty" was created as an advertisement for United States Mutual Accident Association. The imagery derives from an 1884 Currier & Ives lithograph, part of their Darktown series where offensive racial stereotypes are applied to Black subjects. That the firm issued so many works of this type demonstrates how commonplace racist imagery was in nineteenth-century American culture. It is hoped that by studying the context that produced such images, today's viewers will work to minimize discrimination, stereotyping and intolerance.

Artist

Currier & Ives|United States Mututal Accident Association

Date

1886

Medium

Color lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008