| Contributor |
Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith., printer. |
| Title |
The Redwood portable range, Spicers & Peckham, makers of highest grades only. Providence, R.I. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1885 |
| Date |
[ca. 1885] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 10 x 15 cm (3 x 4.5 in.) |
| Description |
Racist trade card illustration depicting an interior scene with an African American woman delivering a loaf of bread to a
well-dressed white woman. The African American woman is attired in a large yellow and green hat with a wide brim, a white
bonnet with a green ribbon tied underneath her chin, a red shawl draped across her shoulders, a green and yellow long sleeved
dress, a green apron, and brown shoes. The white woman is attired in a yellow dress lined with white and a blue ribbon attached
to the back. She wears a blue hairpiece and holds a white fan in both hands. Visible in the background are a set of drawers,
on top of which sits a large vase with flowers and cattail plants, and a larger partially obscured drawer in the right of
the image with a large decorative plate, a vase, and an urn on top of it. A bordered image featuring a Redwood stove is superimposed
over the drawer in the right. The African American woman is depicted with exaggerated features.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Several lines of partially legible advertising text printed on verso. |
|
Text printed on recto: "Don't buy you kitchen stove honey, till you have seen The Redwood." |
|
Gift of David Doret. |
| Subject |
Spicers & Peckham. |
|
African American household employees. |
|
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Equipment industry -- Rhode Island -- Providence. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
| Genre |
Chromolithographs. -- 1880-1890. |
|
Trade cards. -- 1880-1890. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Redwood [P.2017.95.146] |
| Accession number |
P.2017.95.146 |
