Boy searching for coins in gutter
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812530
Item data
Title
Boy searching for coins in gutter
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
African-American Illustrations
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1850 - 1880 (Approximate)
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AFRA-Ill
Subjects
African Americans
Money
African Americans -- Children
Boys -- United States
Coins
Gutters (Streets)
Searching
Genres
Notes
Content: "Little negro (on pavement)--'Say, Henry, what are you doin' in dar?' Henry (in gutter)--'Doin! What I doin'! Why I knows a feller what found a cent in dis werry gutter last year; dat's what I doin.'"--caption.
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: 13 x 13 cm (5 x 5 1/4 in.)
Foxing on image.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17180934
Barcode: 33333159329891
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e0e82740-c52e-012f-3d69-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Boy searching for coins in gutter" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1880. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0e82740-c52e-012f-3d69-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 1880). Boy searching for coins in gutter Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0e82740-c52e-012f-3d69-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Boy searching for coins in gutter" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0e82740-c52e-012f-3d69-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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