Details
Contributor Malven, Gordon & Co., distributor.
Title Compliments of Malven, Gordon & Co., Port Jervis, N.Y. 1891 [graphic].
Publisher [Hartford, Conn.] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher CONN. Hartford. 1891
Date [1891]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 10 x 7 cm (4 x 3 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting the William Rogers Manufacturing Company’s silver plated ware and depicting a caricature of an African American man sitting before an easel painting. Shows the man, attired in a yellow, brimmed hat, a white collared shirt with blue polka dots, a yellow jacket with tails, white pants with a blue stripe, and black shoes, sitting on a wooden stool before an easel. He holds a palette in his left hand and lifts a paint brush up to the canvas with his right hand. He paints blue flourishes as he tilts his head back blowing smoke up into the air. William Rogers founded the William Rogers Manufacturing Company in 1865 in Hartford, Connecticut. The firm became part of the International Silver Company in 1898.
Notes Title from item.
Place of publication deduced from place of operation of the advertised business.
Date inferred from title.
Advertising text printed on verso: Buy the celebrated Rogers brand of Silver Plated Ware. Best in the World. Manufactured by the Wm. Rogers MFG. Co., Hartford, Conn.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject William Rogers Manufacturing Co.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Clothing & dress.
Easels.
Painting.
Racism in popular culture.
Silverware industry -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Associated name Malven, Gordon & Co., distributor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Wm. Rogers [P.2017.95.192]
Accession number P.2017.95.192

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