Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner--"I'll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I'll lick de hul firm."
Compliments of J. Harley Compton, druggist, New Egypt, N.J
still image
Graphic
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890
Trade cards -- 1880-1890
xxu
United States]
UNITED STATES
[publisher not identified]
[ca. 1883]
1883
monographic
eng
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 8 x 13 cm. (3 x 5 in.)
Racist trade card promoting the druggist J. Harley Compton and depicting a caricature of an older African American man reading a notice on a country grocery store. Shows the man with a white beard and attired in a yellow brimmed hat, a long-sleeved red shirt, yellow pants with patches and held up by suspenders, and black shoes. He bends forward to read the sign on the boarded up, dilapidated store. It states in the vernacular that the Johnsing & Skinner Grocery is out of business and that, “Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me--dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing." The African American man is labeled as a creditor who says in the vernacular, “I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.” Another sign on the building states, "10 miles to de post ofice (sic)." In the right, the man’s donkey is tied to an orange post behind him. In the background, fenced in fields and trees are visible. William Carroll purchased J. Harley Compton’s drugstore in New Egypt, New Jersey in 1895.
Title from item.
Text printed on recto: Johnsing & Skinner Grocery. Notis—De firm of Johnsing & Skinner am resolved. Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me—dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing. Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner—“I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.”
Advertising text printed on verso promotes items manufactured by J. Harley Compton, including Compton's concentrated flavoring extracts, liquid rennet, camphor ice with glycerine, cholera and dysentery drops, and Compton's tooth powder. Dated Oct. 9th, 1883.
Forms part of the William Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection.
Compton, J. Harley
approximately 1853-
African American men
Caricatures and cartoons
Donkeys
Grocery stores
Older persons
Pharmaceutical industry
New Jersey
New Egypt
Pharmacists
New Jersey
New Egypt
Racism in popular culture
P.9828.5679
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Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - C [P.9828.5679]
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