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Joseph L. Varnam, ladies' and gents' & children's boot & shoe maker, Bustleton, 23rd ward, Philad'a. [graphic] : Fine custom work made to order. Repairing promptly attended to.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A106579
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Title
Joseph L. Varnam, ladies' and gents' & children's boot & shoe maker, Bustleton, 23rd ward, Philad'a. [graphic] : Fine custom work made to order. Repairing promptly attended to.
Publisher
[Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 5 cm. (3.5 x 2 in.)
Description
Racist trade card depicting an African American man, portrayed in caricature with an oversized head and exaggerated facial features, sitting on a chair and playing the cello. He is attired in bright, mismatched clothing, including a yellow hat, a red and white striped and collared shirt, a yellow bowtie, a blue jacket with tails, yellow and red striped pants, blue socks, and yellow and black shoes. Includes vignettes of a boot and a shoe printed on verso.
Notes
Title from stamp on verso.
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
Varnum, Joseph L.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Boots.
Racism in popular culture.
Shoemakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shoes.
Stringed instruments.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Varnum [P.9984.1]
Accession number
P.9984.1
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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