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Every dog (no distinction of color) "has his day" Red gentlemen to Yellow Gentleman, "Pale face 'fraid you crowd him out, as he did me"

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Call NumberZ-3812CreatorNast, Thomas, 1840-1902Date1870-1880SummaryA Native American with a feather headdress, a peace pipe and fringed buckskin clothes and a Chinese man with a queue (braid), and shan ku (tunic and trousers) and bu xie (cotton shoes), stand beside signs on a wall that convey anti-Chinese, anti-Native American, anti-Irish and anti-foreigner messages. An African American (Black) man sits beside a wall near a sign that reads: "My day is coming."Physical Description1 print : wood engraving ; 40 x 28 cm (16 x 11 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectAfrican Americans--19th centuryChinese--19th centuryIndians of North America--Government relations--19th centuryHandbills--19th centuryRace discrimination--19th centuryRace relationsCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR711003812; Harper's weekly. vol. XXIII, no. 1154.Type of MaterialIllustrationsFilm negativesPolitical cartoonsTear sheetsWood engravingsNotesAttribution engraved in original and reproduced in print. Formerly F22743; Tear sheet consists of a title page, removed from Harper's weekly, vol. XXIII no. 1154. Title printed on tear sheet. Library owns additional iterations of this image in various formats: 1 copy negative ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.). R7110038129

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Every dog (no distinction of color) "has his day" Red gentlemen to Yellow Gentleman, "Pale face 'fraid you crowd him out, as he did me"