Details
Title Refrigerators. N.B Stevens, 43 Kilby Street, Boston. [graphic].
Publisher [Boston] : Bufford
Publisher MA. Boston. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph; sheet 7 x 12 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Description Racist trade card illustration depicting a group of African American men and boys looking on as a photographer takes a photograph of them. The man and boy standing in the left of the image are attired in torn clothing. The Black man in the center of the image stands directly in front of the camera and peers into the lens. A boy in the right of the image crawls toward the scene on all fours. The photographer is crouched under a cloak. Visible in the background is a woman standing beside a cabin.
Notes Title from item.
Advertising text on verso: Refrigerators, Uprights and Chests, all sizes and styles. Ice cream freeers. Peerless [...] clothes wringers. The largest and best assortment of the above in New England. N.B. Stevens, 43 Kilby St., Boston.
Text printed on recto: Photography under a cloud.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cameras.
Equipment industry -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Photographers.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs. -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards. -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Stevens [P.2017.95.171]
Accession number P.2017.95.171