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Title Is dese' your chickens miss, [graphic] : Compliments of Durant & Oehlmann, druggists, 518 Hampshire St., Quincy, Ills.
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 11 x 6.5 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.)
Description Racist trade card depicting an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a torn hat and shirt, on the ground with baby chicks in front of him. In the left, a white woman with a pitchfork leans over a fence to observe the scene and surprises him. Durant & Oehlmann, the partnership between Dr. Joseph F. Durant (b. 1831) and Charles Oehlmann (1849-1921), operated in Quincy, Illinois between 1875 and 1888.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from date of operation of advertised business.
Advertising text printed on verso promotes Falke's Sulpholine Cream and Falke's Kah-Kan-Kee Hair Restorative manufactured by J. Falke & Co., 418 Elm St., St. Louis.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William Helfand.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 Durant & Oehlmann (Quincy, Ill.)
J. Falke & Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chickens.
Farms.
Pharmacists -- Illinois -- Quincy.
Racism in popular culture.
Women.
SP3 African American History
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - D [P.9828.5810]
Accession number P.9828.5810