Details
Title Buy the light running Domestic sewing machine [graphic].
Publisher [Vermont] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher VT. Fair Haven. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 9 x 8 cm (3.5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist trade card illustration depicting an African American boy running on a beach. Visible behind and beneath the boy are five footsteps imprinted in the sand which bear the trade card's advertising text. Driftwood, is depicted near the edge of the shoreline. In the far background, sail boats, trees, and a lighthouse are visible. In the right of the image are a tree and grass. The boy is attired in striped pants with one suspender strap and carries a chicken by its legs in his left hand. Oren A. Peck opened his furniture store in 1869 in Fair Haven, Vermont.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business.
Text printed on recto: Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Advertising text on verso: Oren A. Peck, mammoth dealer in furniture, carpets, upholstery, sewing machines, &c. Also general undertaker. Large line of fine and medium caskets, robes, etc. Two fine hearses. Main Street, Fair Haven, Vt.
Printed in light red ink.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Peck, Oren A.
Domestic Sewing Machine Co.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Beaches.
Furniture industry -- Vermont -- Fair Haven.
Racism in popular culture.
Sewing machine industry.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Oren [P.2017.95.143]
Accession number P.2017.95.143