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Title Lines Bros., the largest retail dealers in the state! Proprietors of ten shoe stores. Buffalo store- 95 [Seneca St.]. Boots, shoes & rubber goods. Low prices. Plain figures. [graphic].
Publisher [New York?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph printed in blue ink ; sheet 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card depicting a comic scene between an African American woman and African American man. Shows the woman hitting a man in the face with the back of her right hand. She clutches an umbrella in her left hand. The man falls backwards with his arms and legs splayed out. The woman is attired in a long striped dress, a dot-patterned apron, and a hat with a flower adornment. She is portrayed with exaggerated features.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from 1884 Buffalo City Directory.
Image caption on recto: A mistaken identity.
Adverstising text on verso: Lines Bros., Largest Retail Dealers in the State Proprietors of Ten Shoe Stores! Buffalo Store, No. 95 E. Seneca St., Boots, Shoes & Rubber Goods. Stores at Troy, Albany, Geneva, Elmira, Buffalo, Lockport, Rochester, Amsterdam, Schenectady, and Canandaigua.
Place of publication inferred from place of business advertised.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Lines Bros.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women. -- Clothing & dress
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Lines [P.2017.95.108]
Accession number P.2017.95.108

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