Details
Title B.F. Gilmore, trunks and traveling bags, 237 Westminster St., Prov., R.I. [graphic].
Publisher [Providence, R.I.] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher R.I. Providence. 1877
Date 1877
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 12 x 7 cm (5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist, satiric trade card promoting B.F. Gilmore's luggage store in Providence, R.I. Depicts a genre scene of an African American woman speaking with an African American man who unknowingly squirts a white man with a hose. The figures are caricaturized and portrayed with exaggerated features. In the right, the African American woman domestic, attired in a red headkerchief and a yellow dress, stands at a waist-high green fence. She crosses her arms and carries a feather duster in her left hand as she speaks with an African American man on the other side of the fence. The man, attired in a white shirt, a blue jacket with gold buttons, and green pants, gestures with his left hand as he talks to the woman. In his right hand, he carries a hose, which he accidently sprays on a white man walking down the sidewalk. The brown-haired white man has a mustache and is attired in black shoes, green striped pants, a white collared shirt with a red tie, a green waistcoat, and a green jacket. He opens his mouth and throws both hands up in alarm as the water knocks the top hat off of his head. In the right background, trees and part of a white house are visible. Benjamin F. Gilmore (1833-1906) established a business manufacturing and selling luggage in Providence, Rhode Island. The business operated until circa 1902.
Notes Title from item.
Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business.
Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1877.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Gilmore, Benjamin F., 1833-1906.
African American household employees.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Conversation.
Hoses.
Luggage industry -- Rhode Island -- Providence.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Gilmore [P.2017.95.70]
Accession number P.2017.95.70