Details
Contributor Hine, Frank B., copyright holder.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Domestic Sewing Machine Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : chromolithographs ; sheet 10 x 17 cm (4 x 6.75 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of trade cards promoting the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. "Make no mistake you buy a domestic" depicts two white women, one tall and the other of short stature, who carry parasols and converse. "Wes don got de "domestic" we has!" depicts a racist, comic genre scene of an African American couple, portrayed in racist caricature with exaggerated features, who have acquired a sewing machine. In the center is a man and woman in a blue-colored cart being pulled by a galloping brown horse. The man, attired in a top hat; a blue jacket; a white collared shirt; and green checked pants, strains and leans forward as he holds the reins. The woman, attired in a yellow dress with black polka dots and a pink bonnet, leans back and exclaims in the vernacular that "wes don got the Domestic, we has!" She raises her left hand in the air and holds a white handkerchief. A sewing machine is visible inside the cart. In the far right a barefooted boy attired in a straw hat; a white collared shirt; and brown pants rolled up to his calves, possibly their displaced son, runs beside the wagon. In the top right corner is an inset illustration of a Domestic Sewing Machine Co.’s sewing machine. "Yes my father was a great antiquarian; where he studied antiquity" depicts a well-dressed, white man and woman couple standing on a veranda conversing. The next panel depicts an older white man carrying a sack on his back and picking through a barrel filled with straw and scrap metal with garbage strewn around on the ground. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.229] copyrighted by Frank B. Hine.
Includes advertising text printed on versos.
Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883. Gift of Helen Beitler, 2001 [P.9983.5].
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 Domestic Sewing Machine Co.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American couples -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Carts & wagons.
Consumers.
Conversation.
Couples.
Courtship.
Older persons.
Racism in popular culture.
Running.
Scavenging.
Sewing machine industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Sewing machines.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Humorous pictures -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Printer Hine, Frank B., copyright holder.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Domestic [1975.F.229 & 230; P.9983.5]
Accession number 1975.F.229
1975.F.230
P.9983.5