Details
Title B.M. Weld, drugs & medicines, also boots, shoes, slippers, etc. Bradford, Vermont. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 3 prints : chromolithographs ; sheet 5.5 x 10 cm (2.25 x 4 in.)
Description Series of three illustrated trade cards promoting druggist B.M. Weld. Depicts a white child raising the American flag on a flag pole; a framed image of two men walking beside a house under the moonlight superimposed onto a spray of flowers; and an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a white collared shirt, a green bowtie, and a blue jacket, who leans over the folded signboard containing the title, and dangles a red suit for a monkey, which sits in the lower right corner holding a red cap in its hand.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business.
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.
Gift of William H. Helfand, 2000.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Weld, B.M.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Children.
Flags -- American.
Monkeys.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Vermont -- Bradford.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7053-7055]
Accession number P.9828.7053
P.9828.7054
P.9828.7055