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Concept

Women, Black

Images

  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A black woman wearing glasses and a head scarf holds up a condom packet; advertisment about the dangers of drugs, sex and AIDS by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Warwick May, 1991.
  • A black woman thanking a doctor for curing her husband. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1916(?).
  • Two black women hold a washing line to which condoms are pegged; advertising safe sex and AIDS prevention. Lithograph.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Gorgeous black masseuse, 24 hrs-40DD-big bum : domination, water sports, bubble bath...

    | Date: [1999]
    • Ephemera

    Dominant black mistress.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Exotic Black beauty : Baker Street area.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Spanking lessons, Caribbean model.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Black mistress, loves slaves.

    | Date: [1992]
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