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Gately & Britton, (limited,) largest installment house in Reading, no. 940 Penn Street [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A68368
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Contributor
Brown, Charles, printer.
Title
Gately & Britton, (limited,) largest installment house in Reading, no. 940 Penn Street [graphic].
Publisher
[Reading, Pa.] : Charles Brown
Publisher
PA. Reading. 1887
Date
1887
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 13 x 8 cm (5 x 3 in.)
Description
Racist trade card promoting Gately & Britton's home furnishing store in Reading, Pa. and depicting a caricature of an African American boy sitting against a fence post eating a large slice of watermelon. Shows the boy squatting on his toes and smiling at the viewer as he holds a piece of watermelon in both hands. He has taken the melon out of a field of watermelon plants surrounded by a barbed wire fence. He is attired in a torn straw hat, blue shorts with a patch, and only the partial sleeves of a red and white striped shirt. The rest of the shirt has ripped and hangs from the barbed wire in the left. On the ground in the left is the watermelon with a slice cut from it with the handle of a knife protuding out of it. In the right is a small, white and brown dog. Edward Gately and G.M. Britton established a home furnishings store called Gately & Britton at 940 Penn Street, Reading, Pa. in 1887. The business continued operating into the 20th century.
Notes
Title from item.
Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business.
Publication information and date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1887 by Chas. Brown.
Series number on recto: C-762.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Gately & Britton.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Eating & drinking.
Dogs.
Home furnishings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Racism in popular culture.
Watermelons.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Associated name
Brown, Charles, printer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Gately [P.2017.95.68]
Accession number
P.2017.95.68
In Collections
Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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