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The eureka poisoned fly-plate will kill every fly in the house [graphic].
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Contributor
Clay & Richmond, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909,8 collector.
Title
The eureka poisoned fly-plate will kill every fly in the house [graphic].
Publisher
Buffalo, N.Y. : Clay & Richmond
Publisher
N.Y. Buffalo. 1885
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 10.5 x 7.5 cm (4.25 x 3 in.)
Description
Trade card promoting Eureka Fly Plate Co. and depicting an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, observing the fly plate kill a swarm of flies. The man, attired in a white collared shirt, a red jacket, and blue pants, stands holding a broom, which he uses to sweep dead flies from the table in the left. On the table is the fly plate that fills with flies. Above the table is a window.
Notes
Title from item.
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
Eureka Fly Plate Co. (Pottstown, Pa.)
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Brooms & brushes.
Flies.
Pest control.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909,8 collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Eureka [1975.F.294]
Accession number
1975.F.294
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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