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The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner

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Image ID

812867


Item data

Title

The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
African-American Life -- 1890s

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1894

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AFRA-L-189

Subjects

African Americans -- 1890-1899
African Americans -- Children -- Missouri -- 1890-1899
African Americans -- Structures -- Missouri -- 1890-1899
African Americans -- Domestic life -- Missouri -- 1890-1899
Hominy grits
Food processing -- Missouri -- 1890-1899
Mortars & pestles
Log cabins

Genres

Photographs

Notes

Content: "Missouri, 1894."--written on border.
Source Note: Our own country : representing our native land and its splendid natural scenery, rivers lakes : reproduced in a series of five hundred original photographs. (St. Louis, Missour : The National Co., 1894) Cox, James (1851-1901), Author.

Physical Description

Halftone photomechanical prints
Extent: 18 x 12 cm (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17609590
Barcode: 33333159333521
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 349e8dd0-c52f-012f-9dac-58d385a7bc34

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1894

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1894. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/349e8dd0-c52f-012f-9dac-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1894). The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/349e8dd0-c52f-012f-9dac-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/349e8dd0-c52f-012f-9dac-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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