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Racist trade card depicting a whimsical scene with a young African American man serving a tray of food to a white couple seated
at a table inside of a large clam shell. In the left, the wide-eyed man holds the large tray at his hips and is attired ina
coat, vest, apron, bow tie, and dark-colored pants. The man and woman hold menus in their hands and are dressed in formal
wear. The scene is set near a harbor and forst on a rocky shore. Trees and a steamboat in the harbor are visible in the background.
Industrialist Samuel Downer opened Melville Garden in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1871. The park was razed in 1897.
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Advertising text printed on verso: The Garden contains First-Class Restaurant, Bowling and Shooting Alleys, Billiard Tables,Patent
Swings, Flying Horses, Camera Obscura, Menagerie, Bear Pit, &c. Row Boats and Yachts to let. Rhode Island Clam Bake at 12,
4 and 6.30 o'clock. Dinner Tickets, 50c. Edmands' Band, Day and Evening. The Garden will be Illuminated Every Evening with
20 Electric Lights. Grand Concert by Edmands' Band Every Sunday Afternoon and Evening. Hingham Steamers Leave Rowe's Wharf
at 5.45, 9.15, 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 2.30, 3.30, 5.30, 6.30, 7.45 and *9.30. Returning, Leave Downer Landing at 7, 7.35, 9.45,
10.35, 12.15, 1.15, 4, 5.15, 6.45, †8.30. †9.30. Cross Trips to and from Nantasket Beach. Leave Downer Landing at 11.20, 12.20,
1.20 and 4.20. Leave Nantasket Beach at 9.30, 12, 1, and 4.50. Sundays. Boston to Downer Landing at 10.15, 2.15, 4.45, and
7.15. Downer Landing to Boston at 12, 3.30, 6, 9.30. †Monday's excepted. *Saturdays excepted. Buy The Excursion Ticket at
Rowe's Wharf, 60 Cents.
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