"The Champion in Danger"

rowing poster

SIGNS & POSTERS
Currier & Ives; Worth, Thos.
USA, NY, New York
1882
paper
Sheet 13-1/2 x 17-3/4 in.; image 8 x 14 in.

Rowing poster, color lithograph, hand colored?, matted; stereotypical rendering of 2 black rowers; “THE CHAMPION IN DANGER./ Golly! he’s got dis Nigga suah, less sumfin happens.” Published by Currier & Ives. 115 Nassau St. N.Y. Copyright 1882, by Currier & Ives, New York. Signed in the plate lower right “Thos Worth”; companion to 2004.83.2.

2004.83.1