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Contributor Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.), printer.
Title Use Dunham's concentrated cocoanut [graphic].
Publisher Detroit : Calvert Lith. Co
Publisher MI. Detroit. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting Dunham's Concentrated Cocoanut and depicting caricaturized portrayals of African men harvesting coconuts. Two bare-chested men stand with a large basket filled with coconuts in the grassy center of a grove of coconut trees. In the left, the man attired in a red sarong, leans over and grips the basket with both hands. In the right, the man, attired in a blue sarong, a coconut on his head, hops in the air on one leg. Two monkeys, one with their arm in the air, are visible above the man and in a coconut tree. In the distant background two men harvest coconuts into a basket. In the lower left corner is an inset containing an image of a box of "Dunham's concentrated cocoanut." John S. Dunham, his son J. Frank, and James Pannell Wood (1861-1906) founded Dunham's Manufacturing Company in 1885 in New York City and St. Louis. The company continued to manufacture shredded coconut until circa 1950s.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from history of advertised business.
Advertising text printed on verso: Dunham's concentrated cocoanut. Patented 1879. The only article of prepared cocoanut on the market that equals the fresh nut. Always fresh and sweet. Why pay 35c. per pound for sugar and other cheaper admixtures? Buy Dunham's concentrated, the only absolutely pure cocoanut, and sweeten to taste. [?] by Dunham's Manufacturing Co. St. Louis, Mo.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Dunham's Manufacturing Co.
Africans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cocounut plantations.
Coconuts.
Fruit industry -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
Harvesting.
Human-animal relationships.
Monkeys.
Racism in popular culture.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Printer Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.), printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dunham [P.2017.95.53]
Accession number P.2017.95.53

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