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Title H. Jahke, wholesale & retail dealer in all descriptions of fresh & salt pork, hams, lard, tongues, &c. 130, 131, 132 & 133 Nineteenth St. market, residence, cor. Baring & Sloan Sts., West Phila. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 11.5 cm (2.75 x 4.5 in.)
Description Racist, trade card promoting butcher John Henry Jahke and depicting a caricature of an African American man on mule-drawn plow. Shows the African American man, attired in a hat and a blue, plaid jacket and pants, sitting on top of a plow. He holds the lever to the plow in his right hand and the reins to the mule pulling the plow in his left hand. The mule is kicking its back legs into the air because three pigs are running around it. Trees are visible in the background. John Henry Jahke (1835-1919) was a prominent butcher who owned a slaughtering and packing plant in West Philadelphia on Baring and Sloan Streets.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883.
Digitized.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Jahke, John Henry, 1835-1919.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Butchers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Farming.
Farms.
Human-animal relationships.
Plowing
Plows
Racism in popular culture.
Swine.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Jahke [P.9766]
Accession number P.9766