Jolly Negro Bank #1

Object Title: Jolly Negro Bank #1
Object ID: AR_0012_03_0001
Created By: J. E. Stevens
Date: Unknown
Date Span: c. 1900-1999
Medium: Iron | Paint | Casting
Dimensions: L:17cm x W:13cm
Description: The red and yellow vintage Jolly Negro bank features a caricature of a smiling Black man, embodying the racially insensitive stereotypes prevalent in early 20th-century America. Designed as a coin bank, it reflects the era's problematic representation of African Americans in popular culture.
Subject Of: Racism, Folklore, Economics, Stereotyping, Minstrelsy, Sambo, Dehumanization, Material Culture, American Popular Culture (19th–20th centuries) Sociology, Anthropology
Placed Used: United States of America
Collection Title: Thomas Bridge Collection
Collection ID: AR_0013
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Meek-Eaton Black Archives/Thomas Bridge Collection
Restrictions and Rights: All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of Meek-Eaton Black Archives is an infringement of the copyright law.
Photograph Rights Holder: Florida A&M University Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum
Spatial Coverage: On Display
Location: Jim Crow Exhibition Hall