Black Americana Man Weighing Baby In Kitchen Real Photo Postcard

A Bran New Coon In Town, copyrighted in 1898 by Knaffl & Bro. of Knoxville, Tennessee, exemplifies the widespread anti-Black racism prevalent in the United States during the Jim Crow era. The postcard's title employs a deeply offensive racial slur, coon, while the image itself, depicting African Americans in a staged domestic scene, aligns with the grotesque caricatures popularized by minstrelsy.