Details
Title Noix de coco, manufactured by Warner & Merritt, Philadelphia. [graphic] : For puddings, pies and pastry.
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1884
Date [ca. 1884]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13 cm. (3 x 5 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting indigenous men and women serving a white woman in a tropical paradise. She relaxes in a hammock as a man fans her with a paddle fan, a woman sets a tray of food next to her, and a man gathers coconuts into a basket. Additional imagery includes palm trees, a fountain, a monkey, a parrot, and pineapples. Warner & Merritt began importing fruit in Philadelphia ca. 1869 and were one of the largest firms importing West Indian fruit in the country by the time of their insolvency in 1884.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Warner & Merritt.
Food industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fruit industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coconuts.
Fountains.
Hammocks (Furniture),
Indigenous peoples.
Monkeys.
Palms.
Paradise.
Parrots.
Servants.
Women.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Warner [P.9947]
Accession number P.9947