Details
Title Fairbank's rock cordials, positive cure for all lung disorders [graphic].
Publisher New York : Chas. Shields' Sons
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 1sheet 12 x 8 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Trade card promoting Fisher and Fairbanks' patent medicine Fairbanks' Rock Cordials and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man chef in the galley of ship. Shows the man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white chef's hat; a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows; a red vest with gold buttons; a white apron; blue pants; and black shoes. He stands holding a spoon in his right hand and with his left hand holds a bowl that is filled with an unidentifiable pink food over a barrel that is being used as a table. He smiles and looks to a blond-haired white girl in the right attired in a pink hat; a black choker; a red dress; a white pinafore; white stockings with red stripes; and black shoes. She carries a doll costumed in a matching outfit and leans to look at the chef mixing. In the foreground on the floor are a pan, a pot with a bowl on top of it, and a spoon. In the background is a stove with a steaming kettle on it and a large chain. In the right, there is a barrel and next to it is a doorway through which we can see a sailor attired in a brimmed hat, a blue jacket, and pants. He stands on the side of the ship and looks through a telescope at the water.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from history of the advertised business.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Subject Fisher & Fairbanks.
African American cooks -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Dolls.
Galleys (Ship kitchens).
Girls.
Medicine, Popular.
Patent medicines.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Pots & pans.
Racism in popular culture.
Sailors.
Ships.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Printer Charles Shields' Sons, printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Fairbanks [P.2017.95.62]
Accession number P.2017.95.62