The hominy-beater: Waiting for dinner
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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
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
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Type Of Resource
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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