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Title Beauty on the street--front view. [graphic] : E. B. Hall, druggist. Established 1852. Wellsville, N.Y.
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph tinted with one stone ; sheet 10.5 x 6.5 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card promoting druggist E.B. Hall and depicting an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a brimmed hat with decorative feathers, an elegant, long-sleeved dress with ruffles, gloves, who carries a tiny purse. She walks down the street carrying a parasol in her right hand and her small dog's leash in the other. Edwin B. Hall opened his drug in Wellsville, N.Y. in 1852.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 2001.
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 Hall, Edwin B., 1825-1908.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Clothing & dress.
Dog walking.
Dogs.
Racism in popular culture.
Pharmacists -- New York (State) -- Wellsville.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Hall [P.9984.3]
Accession number P.9984.3