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Title St. Jacobs Oil, "it conquers pain" [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph; sheet 8 x 11 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Description Racist trade card illustration promoting St. Jacobs Oil, a pain relieving remedy, and depicting two African American men who have fallen off a horse-drawn carriage into a muddy puddle. The man in the right of the image cries while the man in the left of the image stands with his mouth agape and holds his left knee with his left hand. The crying man is attired in a black top hat, an orange jacket, a yellow vest, a white collared shirt, beige pants, yellow gloves, and black and gold boots. The man in the left of the image is attired in a blue jacket, a white ruffled shirt with the collar turned up, a red, white and blue bowtie, a red and white striped vest, red and white striped pants, and black shoes. His blue top hat sits upturned in the puddle. The white horse in the background looks on the scene and is still attached to the overturned carriage by its reins. The men are portrayed with exaggerated features. St. Jacobs Oil was invented by August Vogeler, a German immigrant, his son Charles A., and John H. Winkleman after 1878. Charles A. Vogeler evenutally took over the business in the late 19th century.
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Advertising text printed on verso: Blue Grass Breeders. Mr. R.S. Withers, son of Gen’l Wm. T. Withers of Fairlawn Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky., writes: "I have such confidence in St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-cure, that I use it on everything; myself, my horses, my men. Everybody, for all kinds of aches and pains, believe in its sovereignty as a cure." From Horsemen’s Head-Quarters. Messrs. Treacy & Wilson, Lexington, Ky., favorably known throughout the United States and other countries as successful breeders, trainers of and dealers in fine trotting and thoroughbred stock of every description, write as follows: "We find St. Jacobs Oil very useful for both man and horse, and the article has our full endorsement. We are willing our recommendation of it should be given the widest publicity." The Doctors Prescribe It. Dr. William A. Soula, Doctor Veterinary Surgery and for nine years in charge of the Third Avenue Railroad Stables, New York City, working thousands of horses, certifies to the curative qualities of St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-cure for sprains, galls, rheumatism and all other afflictions to which horses are subject. A Leading Authority Endorses It. Mr. E.A. Buck, Editor and Publisher, The Spirit of the Times, New York, the leading Turf paper and Sporting Authority of the United States, says: "I have used St. Jacobs Oil repeatedly, with satisfactory results." Interviews have been published in the Spirit with leading horsement, stablemen and turfmen, who say that it will do all that is claimed for it, in removing aches and pains from man and beast. The Great German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, for the cure of pain, is sold by druggists everywhere. Price, 50 cents a bottle. Directions in eleven languages.
Subject Charles A. Vogeler Company.
African American jockeys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs. -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards. -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - St. Jacobs [P.2017.95.164]
Accession number P.2017.95.164