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| Identifier | mdaa179 |
| Title | "A Southern Oyster Peddler", an illustration by B. West Clinedinst in Harper's Weekly |
| Creator | Unknown
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| Subject | African Americans
Architecture
Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931
Oyster industry
Street vendors
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| Description | Photograph of an illustration entitled "A Southern Oyster Peddler" by B. West Clinedinst that appeared on page 173 of Harper's Weekly of March 2, 1889. This illustration depicts an African American oyster peddler in Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a white apron over his suit and carrying ladles and two metal cans of oysters, he stands in front of a stone archway. Beneath the archway and behind the oyster peddler is a well-dressed older couple walking arm in arm away from him. Behind them and just to the right is a gentleman walking toward the peddler. On the far right is an African American woman standing on stairs, holding onto a wooden railing. At the time of this illustration, the oyster industry with its depots and express wagons was making the oyster peddler's way of life obsolete, and he was rapidly disappearing from Baltimore's streets. |
| Publisher (Electronic Version) | Enoch Pratt Free Library
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| Holding Institution | Enoch Pratt Free Library
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| Date Original | [undated] |
| Date Digital | 2003-06-09 |
| Type | Image
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| Format | Digital reproduction of 1 black-and-white photograph, 25 x 19 cm. |
| Source | Maryland Department, Photograph Collection; L3009 |
| Relation | Is Part Of Views of African American life in Maryland
Is Part Of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program
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| Coverage (Time Period) | 1881-1890
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