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“Universal family” Soapine, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, R.I. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A68115
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Title
“Universal family” Soapine, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, R.I. [graphic].
Publisher
[Providence, R.I.] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
R.I. Providence. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 8 x 11 cm (3 x 4.25 in.)
Description
Racist trade card promoting Kendall Manufacturing Co.’s Soapine and depicting caricatures and ethnic stereotypes of people helping Liberty wash laundry. Shows Liberty in the center personified as a white woman with blonde hair tied up in a bun attired in a blue cap with a white star and a white sleeveless dress with a red belt that has an American flag crest. She stands behind a wooden wash tub labeled “Kendall MFG Co.” that sits on top of six boxes labeled with the letter K. She spreads both of her arms out to the seven people around her. In the left, a white man with blond hair and mustache (possibly German,) holds a pipe in his mouth and is attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and black shoes. He bends over as he carries a large box labeled “universal soap” on his back. A white Scottish man with blonde hair, attired in a blue cap with a yellow feather, a green shirt with a red sash, and a red kilt, helps a white man with black hair and mustache (possibly French) attired in a blue uniform with gold epaulettes and black shoes, carry a large straw basket filled with white laundry to the wash tub. In the right, caricatures of an African American man in a white sleeveless top, a Native American man attired with a feather headdress and blue pants with a bundle of arrows on his back, and a Chinese man with his hair styled in a queue attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and blue, slip-on, cloth shoes, carry an oversize wash board labeled “French Laundry Soap.” In the center foreground, a white man with blonde hair and attired in a blue shirt, brown pants, blue socks, and black shoes, has fallen down on the ground. Beside him is a broken white pipe, and a small black cat runs away. Henry L. Kendall (1805-1883) founded a soap manufactory in Providence, R.I. in 1827. The Kendall Manufacturing Co. was incorporated in 1860. The Company continued to manufacture soap into the mid-20th century.
Notes
Title from item.
Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business.
Date deduced from history of the advertised business.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Kendal Manufacturing Co.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Allegories.
Chemical industry -- Rhode Island -- Providence.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Indians of North America -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Indigenous peoples -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Laundry.
Liberty.
Lifting & carrying.
Men, Chinese.
Racism in popular culture.
Scots -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Soaps.
Wash tubs.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Kendall [P.2017.95.96]
Accession number
P.2017.95.96
In Collections
Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection
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