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Contributor J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Title Bissell & Underwood, wholesale and retail dealers in staple and fancy groceries, provisions, flour, fruit, canned goods, choice teas, spices, &c., &c., Turner's block, Church Street, Willimantic Conn. [graphic].
Publisher Boston : Bufford
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 12 cm (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Trade card promoting grocers Bissell & Underwood and depicting a racist scene of barefooted, African American men knocked about from a kicking mule in the middle of a cottonfield. In the center, a mule equipped with a saddle and reins, kicks its back feet into the air, above a wooden board lying on the ground. In the right, a man attired in a blue shirt and white, checked pants, tumbles onto his back and with his legs in the air. Near him a man attired in blue and white striped pants and an orange, checked shirt, runs away. In the left, a man attired in blue pants and a white shirt falls to the ground, head first and upside down. In the lower left, the lower leg and bare foot of a person attired in blue and white striped pants and running away is visible. In the background, a man with a hat and checked shirt stands with both arms up in the air in alarm. Two figures gathering cotton are also visible in the distance. Bissell & Underwood's store was closed and sold for auction in 1881.
Notes Title from item.
Name of publisher from copyright statement: Copyrighted Bufford, Boston.
Date deduced from the history of the advertised business.
Text printed on the recto: And he got!
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Bissell & Underwood.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cotton pickers.
Cotton plantations.
Falling.
Grocery stores -- Connecticut -- Willimantic.
Human-animal relationships.
Mules.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Printer J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Bissell [P.2017.95.13]
Accession number P.2017.95.13