Details
Title Picking the coffee berries [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 13 x 8 cm (5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist trade card specimen depicting an African man picking coffee on a plantation. Shows the bare-chested, barefooted man, attired in a straw hat and red striped shorts, picking coffee berries and placing them into a straw basket. The basket, which is hung around his shoulders and neck by a strap in front of his waist, is full of red berries. In the left, the coffee plant that the man picks from is full of red berries. More plants are visible in the background.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Africans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Coffee.
Coffee plantations.
Coffee plants.
Harvesting.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - Picking [P.2017.95.208]
Accession number P.2017.95.208