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Contributor Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin
Title Véritable extrait de viande Liebig. [graphic] : La case de l'oncle
Publisher [Paris?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher Paris. FRANCE. 1904
Date [ca. 1904]
Physical Description 6 prints : chromolithographs ; sheets 7 x 12 cm (2.75 x 4.5 in.)
Description Series of six captioned (in French) trade cards containing scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" to promote Liebig Extract of Meat. Cards depict scenes from chapters 4, 7, 12, 14, 17, and 41. Translated captions include: Aunt Chloe preparing corn cakes; Crossing the Ohio on floating ice, Elisa[sic] escapes from Haley; The fight against slave traders; The slave market; On the verge of drowning, Eva is saved by Tom; and the death of Tom. Scenes show enslaved African American woman “Aunt Chloe” at her brick stove, surrounded by three enslaved African American boys as the white adolescent son of her owner, George Shelby, teaches enslaved African American man and her husband "Uncle Tom" to write; enslaved African American woman Eliza Harris escaping white slave trader Mr. Haley with her son Harry in her arms as she runs across patches of ice on the Ohio River; Eliza Harris’s multi-racial husband George Harris shooting white mercenary Tom Loker in a chasm after departing his and his family’s shelter within a Quaker settlement and for Canada; the market of enslaved people attended by Haley following Eliza’s escape where a young enslaved African American boy stands for sale near a white man mercenary and an enslaved African American woman who reaches out for him; Tom swimming toward the flailing, young white girl Eva St. Clare, i.e. Little Eva, in the water near a dock and a steamboat lined with spectators watching the event; and an adult George Shelby visiting with a dying Tom who rests against a bundle amongst crates and straw within a shed after being beaten at the request of his white enslaver Simon Legree.
Most of the African American figures are not caricatured in features or attire. Eliza and George Harris figures are depicted with fair complexions. Also depicts Tom as unbeaten in his "deathbed" scene. Von Liebig, a German-born chemist, who developed a manufacturing process for meat extract in 1840, established the Liebig Extract of Meat Company in 1865. The extract was marketed as an alternative to meat.
Notes Series title from items.
Cards numbered No. 1 - No. 6.
Printed lower right corners: Voir L'Explication au verso.
Advertising text and explanation of the depicted scenes and their context printed in French on versos. Includes statement about the cards being distributed gratuitously with the purchase of Liebig extract.
Majority of the cards contain a vignette depicting a jar of Liebig extract in the lower right corner. No. 1 contains the vignette in the upper left corner. No. 2 contains the vignette in the lower left corner
Date inferred from circa date of other trade card series issued by Liebig Company.
Housed with the Emily Phillips Advertising Card Collection.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
Aunt Chloe (Fictitious character)
Eliza (Fictitious character)
Harris, George (Fictitious character)
Mr. Haley (Fictitious character)
Little Eva (Fictitious character)
Loker, Tom (Fictitious character)
Shelby, George (Fictitious character)
Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.
African American mothers.
Child slaves.
Fugitive slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Slaves.
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions.
Slave traders.
Slave trade.
Slavery -- United States.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Enslaved children.
Freedom seekers -- Capture & imprisonment.
Enslaved people.
Enslaved people -- Social conditions.
Racialization and visual culture.
Traders.
Transatlantic slave trade.
Enslavement -- United States.
Enslavement -- United States -- Fiction.
Mercenaries.
Genre Trade cards -- 1900-1910.
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade cards - Liebig [P.2018.49.4a-f]
Accession number P.2018.49.4a
P.2018.49.4b
P.2018.49.4c
P.2018.49.4d
P.2018.49.4e
P.2018.49.4f