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Contributor J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Cofield, Petty & Co., printer.
Title The City Store, No. 4 Main Street, Spartanburg, S.C., A. Freisleben, proprietor [graphic].
Publisher [Boston] : J.H. Bufford's Sons, (Spartanburg, S.C. : Cofield, Petty & Co.)
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1883
Date 1883
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 10 cm (3.25 x 4 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting A. Freisleben's dry goods store and depicting a caricature of an African American man looking over a fence at a shoe filled with chicks. Shows the young man, attired in a red shirt with white stripes, a blue collared vest, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with two yellow chicks poking out of the top, behind a wooden fence. He grasps the top of the fence with his fingers as he smiles and looks in the left at the black men's dress shoe filled with four yellow chicks. In the background is a house and some trees. Abram Freisleben (1847-1925) emigrated from Germany to America in 1864. He opened a dry good store in Spartanburg, South Carolina ca. 1880. In 1887, he lost the store and his merchandise to creditors. He moved to Georgia in 1889 and continued in the dry goods business.
Notes Title from item.
Publication information from copyright statement: Copyright 1883 by J.H. Bufford's Sons.
Advertising text printed on verso: Why? Why we can offer you better Goods for less money than any other house in the trade. Because we are the only house which sells strictly for CASH: there are no bad debts to collect and the CASH CUSTOMER need not pay for such LOSSES: we can make "One Price To All," which one who does part cash and part credit business cannot do. 2. We have no partners to divide with -- and have entered with our cash customers into such partnership -- a small per cent. suffices us. 3. We carry a large line and receive New Goods continuously in our Special Lines of Dry Goods. Silks, Cashmeres, (Blacks and Colors.) Amer. Dress Goods, White Goods, House-Furnishing Goods and everything else usually found in a First-Class Establishment. Stamping done on short notice. Millinery. An experienced Milliner at all times to sell Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats-- all shapes and styles-- as they appear in season. A full assortment of Straw Goods, Tips, Plumes, Flowers, etc. on sale. Shoes and Slippers. For Ladies'. For Misses'. For Children's. For Infants'. For Men's. For Boys' WEAR. CUSTOM-MADE and WARRANTED. NO SHODDYS DEALT IN! Gents' Furnishing Goods. Laundried and Unlaundried Shirts. Our 50c. Unlaundried Shirt is a "Hummer." Novelties of neckwear and collar as they appear. Before buying, be sure to call.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Freisleben, Abram, 1847-1925.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chickens.
Dry goods stores -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg.
Human-animal relations.
Racism in popular culture.
Shoes.
Smiling.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
PRINTER Cofield, Petty & Co., printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Freisleben [P.2017.95.66]
Accession number P.2017.95.66

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