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Ask your grocer or druggist for Law's Bluing. Each package makes one quart of bluing strong enough for ink, and will blue, bleach, or color very nicely for rag carpets. [graphic].
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Title
Ask your grocer or druggist for Law's Bluing. Each package makes one quart of bluing strong enough for ink, and will blue, bleach, or color very nicely for rag carpets. [graphic].
Publisher
[New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph printed in blue ink ; sheet 8 x 11 cm (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description
Racist trade card with a trompe l'oeil and montage aesthetic depicting a dancing African American minstrel. Shows the slim-legged figure composed of the head of a baby and a caricaturized body in minstrel attire of striped pantaloons and a cropped jacket with long tails. The minstrel holds up a circular-shaped sign through which his head pokes out. Tear marks surround the minstrel's face which is slightly turned to the left. Sign also contains advertising text.
Notes
Title from item.
Place of publication inferred from promotional text printed on recto: Sample sent by mail on receipt of price - 15 cts. T.S. Laws, South Butler, N.Y.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Laws, T.S.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chemical industry -- New York -- South Butler.
Dance.
Minstrels.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Lithographs -- Color -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Laws [P.2017.95.107]
Accession number
P.2017.95.107
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Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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