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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].
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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
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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