Details
Contributor J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer
Title Go to Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart's for the lowest prices in dry goods & notions, 442 & 444 Penn Street, Reading, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Boston : Bufford
Publisher MASS. Boston 1880
Date [1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 12 x 7 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart's dry goods store and depicting a caricature of African American boys with a donkey. Shows a barefooted boy, attired in pants with a hole at the knee, a shirt, and a jacket, sitting atop a donkey that is kicking its hind legs into the air. The boy looks down wide-eyed and with a worried countenance and holds the handle of a large banner with the advertising text in his right hand. In the left, behind the donkey, another boy crouches on his hands and knees on the ground and looks up at the rear of the donkey. He is barefoot and attired in pants and a jacket. Josiah Dives, George Strickland Pomeroy, and John Stewart opened their dry goods store in 1876 in Reading, PA. In 1880, the store moved to 442 & 444 Penn Street. Hahn Department Stores bought the company in 1934.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from history of the advertised business.
Series number on recto: 493.
Manuscript note annotating title on recto: Reading, Pa.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Crawling & creeping.
Donkeys.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Human-animal relationships.
Racism in popular culture.
Riding.
Genre Lithographs -- 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 - Dives [P.2017.95.43]
Accession number P.2017.95.43