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Reed's, for clothing, furnishings, hats, shoes, 918-920-922 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [graphic] : Best quality, lowest prices.
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Contributor
J.H. Bufford’s Sons Lith., printer.
Title
Reed's, for clothing, furnishings, hats, shoes, 918-920-922 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [graphic] : Best quality, lowest prices.
Publisher
Boston : The Bufford's Sons Lith Co
Publisher
MASS. Boston. 1887
Date
1887
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 13 x 9 cm (5 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Trade card for Jacob Reed's Sons and depicting African American children, portrayed in racist caricature, sledding. Shows ten African American children, attired in short-sleeved pajamas, in a toboggan sledding down a snow-covered slope. One child plays a horn. The child at the back holds on with their leg outside the toboggan. White spectators watch from the side of the incline, and other toboggans are seen in the distance at the top of the slope. Jacob Reeds Sons was established in 1825 by Jacob Reed and operated as a premier men's clothing store until 1983. The business, assumed by Reed's sons in 1877, relocated to 920-22 Chestnut Street by 1883. By the early twentieth century, the firm sold men's and young men's clothing, as well as specialty, chauffeur’s, military, and uniform clothing.
Notes
Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1887 by The Bufford's Sons Lith. Co.
Printed lower right corner: 794.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Duplicate image of: trade cards - P [113418.O]
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
Jacob Reed's Sons.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American children -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Racism in popular culture.
Snow.
Spectators.
Toboggans.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-18980.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - R [P.2011.42.1]
Accession number
P.2011.42.1
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African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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