Shirley Temple

“humorous” postcards of black children, 1940s

“Look me over buddy… I’m a real brunette!”

“humorous” postcard, 1930s

Baby Jane, child star, mid-1930s

Early 20th c. sheet music:

“Pickaninny Rag” (1908),

“Topsy Two Step” (1904), and

“Ten Baby Fingers” (1920)

A scene from the 1927 film of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” starring Virginia Grey (Eva) and Marie Foster (Mammy), the death of Little Eva: “I’ll soon be going away, Mammy”

Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, in a scene from the film “The Little Colonel,” 1935

Top: Aunt Jemima pancakes ad, c. 1943

Bottom: Patsy, a “mammy” or nursemaid with her charge, 19th century

Shirley Temple doll, 1930s

“Mammy” doll, c. 1940s

“Minstrel” pot, 1930s

Shirley Temple cream pitcher and cup (send-away prizes from Wheaties boxes in mid-1930s)

Al Jolson, white Jewish “blackface” minstrel, 1930

Fredi Washington, African American actress who played Peola in the 1934 film “Imitation of Life”