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Contributor J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Title Bissell & Underwood, wholesale and retail dealers in staple and fancy groceries, provisions, flour, fruit, canned goods, choice teas, spices, &c., &c., Turner's block, Church Street, Willimantic Conn. [graphic].
Publisher Boston : Bufford
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 12 cm (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Trade card promoting grocers Bissell & Underwood and depicting a racist scene of barefooted, African American men trying to get a downed mule on its feet in a cotton field. The men are depicted with exaggerated features. In the center, the mule lies on its side on the ground. Its feet are pointed to the viewer. In the right, a man attired in blue and white checked pants rolled up to his knees and an orange checked shirt pulls the mule's head by the reins. To the left, two men, one attired in blue pants and orange shirt, and the other in blue pants and green shirt, push a wooden board as a wedge under the mule. In the left, a fourth man, attired in white pants and blue shirt pulls on the mule's tail. Behind him, in the background, a man attired in blue pants, an orange shirt, and brimmed hat holds a hoe and watches the scene. In the far right distance, laborers with baskets on their back pick cotton. Bissell & Underwood's store was closed and sold for auction in 1881.
Notes Title from item.
Name of publisher from copyright statement: Copyrighted Bufford, Boston.
Date deduced from the history of the advertised business.
Text printed on recto: Oh git!
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Bissell & Underwood.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cotton pickers.
Cotton plantations.
Grocery stores -- Connecticut -- Willimantic.
Human-animal relationships.
Mules.
Racism in popular culture.
Wedges.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Printer J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Bissell [P.2017.95.14]
Accession number P.2017.95.14