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For the holidays, good dinners, &c., to be had at the Model Coffee House, Chas. Huber, Proprietor. [graphic] No. 48 East Seneca Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Separate room for ladies.
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Title
For the holidays, good dinners, &c., to be had at the Model Coffee House, Chas. Huber, Proprietor. [graphic] No. 48 East Seneca Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Separate room for ladies.
Publisher
[New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1885
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 7 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description
Racist trade card illustration depicting an African American man cook delivering food to a table and two blonde-haired white children trailing him. In the foreground is a table with a red and white tablecloth. Plates of food, trays, and a pitcher are visible on the table. A fish is depicted atop a plate at the center of the table and a tray in the right bears bunches of grapes and bears. Behind the three figures are shrubbery and a trellis covered in leafy vines. The cook is attired in a white chef's hat and uniform and is depicted with exaggerated features. The young white girl dons a red ribbon in her hair. Charles Huber owned a restaurant, Model Coffee House, in Buffalo, New York during the late nineteenth century.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content and genre of print.
Advertising text printed on recto: Separate room for ladies.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Model Coffee House.
African American cooks.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Children.
Dining tables.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs. -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards. -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Model [P.2017.95.133]
Accession number
P.2017.95.133
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Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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