Details
Contributor E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Atmore's mince meat and genuine English plum pudding. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Ketterlinus
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 10 x 7 cm (4 x 2.75 in.)
Description Trade card promoting Atmore & Son’s mince meat and depicting a racist scene of an African American boy street peddler. He stands on a sidewalk and holds a disc-shaped pie in his hands in front of the door to a brick building. The rosy-cheeked boy smiles and looks at the viewer. He is barefoot and attired in a white, collared shirt with orange stripes; yellow suspenders; and blue pants with black stripes that are rolled up to below his knees. In the left, on the ground and behind the peddler, is a handled basket full of pies that is partially wrapped in a white cloth. In the right is a tree with green leaves. Atmore & Son, established in 1842, was located at 141 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Pa. They continued producing mince meat as late as 1948.
Notes Various printers printed series of trade cards in the 1870s for Atmore & Son before Ketterlinus, including Clay, Cosask & Co. of Buffalo (1870), Clay & Cosock (1876), and Thos. Hunter (1877).
Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Atmore & Son.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Eating & drinking.
Meat industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Mincemeat.
Peddlers.
Pies.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Atmore's [1975.F.14]
Accession number 1975.F.14