Found at the Laughing Cat antique shop in Genoa, Illinois, last weekend. The owner of the shop guessed that it was a page from a calendar salesman's sample book. I love this picture, not only for the humane portrait in an era when caricature of African-Americans was more common (and this no doubt was shown to potential black customers only) but because of the title, "Little Man," a phrase I've heard black families use to describe boy toddlers in the present day.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Little Man, 1946
Found at the Laughing Cat antique shop in Genoa, Illinois, last weekend. The owner of the shop guessed that it was a page from a calendar salesman's sample book. I love this picture, not only for the humane portrait in an era when caricature of African-Americans was more common (and this no doubt was shown to potential black customers only) but because of the title, "Little Man," a phrase I've heard black families use to describe boy toddlers in the present day.
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