Contributor |
Rand McNally and Company, publisher. |
Title |
Kendall's Spavin Cure [graphic]. |
Publisher |
Chicago : Rand McNally Co |
Publisher |
ILL. Chicago. 1880 |
Date |
[ca. 1880] |
Physical Description |
1 print : color relief ; sheet 9 x 15 cm (3.5 x 6 in.) |
Description |
Trade card promoting B.J. Kendall Company, manufacturer of proprietary medicine, and depicting a racist caricature of an African
American man jockey portrayed with exaggarated features. Shows the jockey at the reins of a brown race horse running at full
speed, its legs lifted off the ground, and two of its shoes flying through the air. The jockey grips the reins of the horse
over which he is prone and suspended above. He exclaims in the vernacular, "I only ’plied jist six bottles of Kendall’s Spavin
Cure...so he can go in 2:05 3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16." The jockey is attired
in a red buttoned jacket and red plaid pants. His red and white striped jockey's cap and one of his black boots have flown
off and trail behind him. In the background a wooden fence lines the grounds. An African American man with exaggarated features
attired in blue pants and a red plaid shirt and with his mouth open and arms raised in alarm stands within the entryway to
the fence. A wooden sign posted on the fence reads, "2.05 3/8." Burney James Kendall (1845-1922) founded the B.J. Kendall
Company in Enosburg Falls, Vermont in 1879. Kendall Company was incorporated in 1883. The success of Kendall's Spavin Cure
spurred the firms line of products to expand to proprietary medicines for other animals in addition to people. The Company
declined and closed in 1957 following the invention of automobiles.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and genre of print. |
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Text printed on recto: "Hi! Dat hoss can jist fly now. I only 'plied jist six bottles of Kendall's Spavin Cure, and it hab
taken off all dem four ringbones, two spavins, one curb, two splints, one capped hock and a shoe bile, so he can go in 2:05
3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16. Dat boy nebber shall fly wid dat hoss agin, for
he am liable to fly off de track if he 'creases dat speed."
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Copyright secured. |
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Advertising text printed on verso: Kendall's Spavin Cure. The great success which has attended the introduction of Kendall's
Spavin Cure, in all parts of the United States, has never been equalled, and it is now considered by the very best veterinary
surgeons and most extensive horse-owners in the country to be the greatest discovery in veterinary science of the nineteenth
century. It is giving the very best of satisfaction wherever urged. A few reasons why: 1. It does not blister or cause any
sore, which makes it a desirable liniment for man or beast. 2. It is sure in its effect. 3. It cures spavins, splints, ring-bone,
curb, callous, sprains, swellings, galls, lameness, from whatever cause, in any part of the body or limbs. 4. As a household
liniment it has no equal. Its effect on human flesh is marvellous. It is used with the most gratifying results in all cases
of lameness or any deep-seated pains, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, corns, bunions, frost bites, felons, chillblains, burns
or any pain, bruise, cut or lameness which are not affected in the least by ordinary liniments. Kendall's Spavin Cure. Kendall's
Spavin Cure, refined expressively for Human Flesh, in red wrappers, price $.50. Kendall's Spavin Cure, in light wrappers,
for Animals, price $1.00. The Spavin Cure in light wrappers can be used on human flesh with perfect safety, if desired. B.J.
Kendall & Co., Proprietors. Enosburgh Falls, Vt., U.S.A. Sold by all druggists.
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Testimonial printed on verso: Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 13, 1880. Dr. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: -- I have a very fine mare that
has had a bone spavin for a long time. I tried everything man could devise to cure it, but all in vain, and was about to give
it up, when a friend of mine in this city came to me and recommended Kendall's Spavin Cure, which I tried with grand results,
removing that bone clear and clean; and then I sent twenty-five cents to you for one of your Illustrated Horse Books, and
I think there is no better book printed on the horse and his diseases. I have taken great interest in it, and have since sold
eighteen copies for you to my neighbors, and will try and do what good I can by getting them for others. Yours truly, G.W.
Miller.
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Gift of David Doret. |
Subject |
B.J. Kendall Company. |
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African American jockeys |
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African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Horse racing. |
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Patent medicines. |
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Vermont -- Enosburg Falls. |
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Race horses. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Veterinary drugs. |
Genre |
Relief prints -- Color -- 1870-1880. |
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Trade cards -- 1870-1880. |
Printer |
Rand McNally and Company, publisher. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - BJ Kendall [P.2017.95.10] |
Accession number |
P.2017.95.10 |