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A black ball

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@ Jerome Robbins Dance Division. The New York Public Library

Description

Cartoon satirizing middle-class African-Americans in Philadelphia. Set at a ball, it depicts two elegantly dressed women and a man at left, who comment on a second man, at right, who dances alone. Undaunted, he and a third man at far right contribute their own remarks.
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Text
Format:
Prints Etchings Aquatints
Created Date:
1830 1839
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Prints depicting dance

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library