Details
Contributor Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith., printer.
Title The Redwood portable range, Spicers & Peckham, makers of highest grades only. Providence, R.I. [graphic].
Publisher [New York] : Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Lith
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 10 x 15 cm (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card illustration depicting an interior scene with an African American woman delivering a loaf of bread to a well-dressed white woman. The African American woman is attired in a large yellow and green hat with a wide brim, a white bonnet with a green ribbon tied underneath her chin, a red shawl draped across her shoulders, a green and yellow long sleeved dress, a green apron, and brown shoes. The white woman is attired in a yellow dress lined with white and a blue ribbon attached to the back. She wears a blue hairpiece and holds a white fan in both hands. Visible in the background are a set of drawers, on top of which sits a large vase with flowers and cattail plants, and a larger partially obscured drawer in the right of the image with a large decorative plate, a vase, and an urn on top of it. A bordered image featuring a Redwood stove is superimposed over the drawer in the right. The African American woman is depicted with exaggerated features.
Notes Title from item.
Several lines of partially legible advertising text printed on verso.
Text printed on recto: "Don't buy you kitchen stove honey, till you have seen The Redwood."
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Spicers & Peckham.
African American household employees.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Equipment industry -- Rhode Island -- Providence.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs. -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards. -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Redwood [P.2017.95.146]
Accession number P.2017.95.146