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Title
Use Dunham's concentrated cocoanut [graphic].
Publisher
[St. Louis] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
MO. St. Louis. 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.
Place of publication inferred from place of operation of advertised business.
Date deduced from history of advertised business.
Advertising text printed on verso: "The only article of prepared cocoanut on the market that equals the fresh nut. Patented 1879. Always sweet and fresh. Don't pay cocoanut price for sugar. Buy Dunham's concentrated, the only absolutely pure cocoanut, and sweeten according to taste. Packed in one pound fruit cans and one pound and half pound pasteboard packages. Manufactured by [Dun]ham Manufact[?] St. Louis MO." Illustration of a container of Dunham's cocoanut. "Patented screw top for 1879. Dunham's Co[ncen]trated [Cocoanu]t."
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Dunham's Manufacturing Co.
Africans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Coconut plantations.
Coconuts.
Fruit industry -- Missouri -- St. Louis.
Harvesting.
Human-animal relationships.
Monkeys.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dunham [P.2017.95.52]
Accession number
P.2017.95.52
In Collections
Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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