Details
Contributor Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
Title Enterprise Congress-World's Fair. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Donaldson Brothers, lith
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1893
Date 1893
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 13 x 9 cm (5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 promoting the Enterprise Maufacturing Company of Pennsylvania's meat choppers and depicting Uncle Sam demonstrating a meat chopper surrounded Columbia and people representing different nationalities. In the center, Uncle Sam chops meat by turning the handle of a meat chopper mounted to a table under which two pigs stand. In the right, Columbia, depicted as a white woman attired in a white dress with gold trim and a red sash, stands holding a gold staff topped with a star and places her right hand on Uncle Sam's shoulder. At her feet is a bald eagle with an American flag crested shield on its chest. In a left, a Scotsman, attired in tartan kilt, bends at the waist and watches the chopper grind meat onto a plate. Men stand and look on surrounding the table representing different nationalities, including an Irishman, Englishman, and a Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a gold conical hat, blue shirt, and purple robe. Also includes partially visible exposition buildings in the background. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, Lith. N.Y.
Several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes the excellence of the "Enterprise Meat Choppers" in not tearing or grinding, but chopping the meat so devoid of "strings, sinew, fibers or gristle"; foods able to be chopped, including sausage meat, peppers, corn for fritters, coconut, and "Beef Tea for invalids"; the design of the plates; and prices of different models ranging from $2.00 to $15.00, including No. 42, a "Pork only" chops 5 lb. per minute.
Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Typeface on verso varies between prints.
Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts an "Enterprise" meat chopper clamped to a table. Ground meat falls onto a plate.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Michael Zinman.
Subject World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings.
Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Penn’a.
Allegories.
Asian conical hats.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Ethnic stereotypes.
Hardware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
International relations and culture.
Meat grinders.
Men -- Chinese.
Men -- England.
Men -- Ireland.
Men -- Scotland.
Swine.
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.66]
Accession number P.2008.36.66