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African American Illustrated Postcards (Down in Sunny Dixie) Collection
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African American Illustrated Postcards (Down in Sunny Dixie) Collection

  • US TxAM-C C000565
  • Collection
  • 1938

This collection consists of an illustrated mailer postmarked New Orleans, and hand-addressed to Toledo OH, containing 18 accordion-folded 6in x 4in color photos purporting to show (stereotypical happy variety) black life in the south, with two songs, "Dixie Land" and "Dixieland for M" printed on the inside of the mailer with a cypress tree on one side of the fold and a photo of a black man and woman next to the address label.

These were reproduced from hand-tinted black and white originals. Postcard-size images, but double-sided without space for messages.

Down in Sunny Dixie Postcards

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Front: "Having A Delightful Time--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "How We Love To Work And Play--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Seben Come Leben--Down In Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Race Between the "Natchez" and the "Robert E. Lee"

1/3
Front: "Just a Small Family--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Home, Sweet Home--Down in Sunny Dixie"

1/4
Front: "Cotton Picking Time--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Barge Load of Cotton on River Front--Down in Sunny Dixie"

1/5
Front: "Negro Baptism--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Washington Lincoln Napoleon Alexander Jackson, From Dixie"

1/6
Front: "Enjoying Home Cooking--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Three Chocolate Drops--Down in Sunny Dixie"

1/7
Front: "Growing Tobacco--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "An Old Plantation Cabin--Down in Sunny Dixie"

1/8
Front: "Telling a Good Story--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "I'se Waitin' Fo' You Here--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Sunday Afternoon--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Yielding to Temptation--Down in Sunny Dixie"