Details
Title "Wes don got de "Domestic," we has!" [graphic].
Publisher [Cincinnati, OH] : [publishes not identified]
Publisher OH. Cincinnati. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 8 x 13 cm (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting the Domestic Sewing Machine Company and depicting a comic genre scene of an African American couple who has acquired a sewing machine. The figures are portrayed with exaggerated features. In the center is a man and woman in a blue-colored cart being pulled by a galloping brown horse. The man, attired in a top hat; a blue jacket; a white collared shirt; and green checked pants, strains and leans forward as he holds the reins. The woman, attired in a yellow dress with black polka dots and a pink bonnet, leans back and exclaims in the vernacular that "wes don got the Domestic, we has!" She raises her left hand in the air and holds a white handkerchief. A sewing machine is visible inside the cart. In the far right a barefooted boy attired in a straw hat; a white collared shirt; and brown pants rolled up to his calves, possibly their displaced son, runs beside the wagon. In the top right corner is an inset illustration of a Domestic Sewing Machine Co.'s sewing machine. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924.
Notes Title from item.
Place of publication inferred from place of operation of advertised business.
Date deduced from history of the advertised business.
Advertising text printed on verso: "It stands at the head. The light running "Domestic" No. 4 Family. The best. The model machine. Domestic Sewing Machine Co." Includes an illustration of a Domestic sewing machine.
Gift of David Doret.
Library Company holds duplicate copy [P.2017.95.49].
Subject Domestic Sewing Machine Co.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American couples -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Carts & wagons.
Consumers.
Racism in popular culture.
Running.
Sewing machine industry -- Ohio -- Norwalk.
Sewing machines.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Domestic [P.2017.95.50]
Accession number P.2017.95.50