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Title: Jeff . Davis in prison
Description: Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]

Title: Jeff . Davis in prison
Description: Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]

Title: 50 new elegant embossed chromo cards with your name printed on them, for only 8 cents in stamps. This offer lasts only till October 30, after that our regular price will be charged. Address Star Card Co., East Boston, Mass. Box 38
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting an African American man peering over a fence and gazing downard. The man is attired in a cap and holds a cane in his left hand. His right hand grips the top of the fence. A sign on the fence bears the advertising text promoting personalized greeting cards. Below the sign is a notice that reads, "Post No Bills." The African American man is depicted with exggerated features., Title from item., Advertising text printed on verso: Read! Read! These cards are something new, Gold Floral, Rememberance, Sentimental, Hand Floral, etc. with Love Friendship and Holiday Mottoes. Besides this maginificent offer we give with every pack, 10 pieces New and Popular music, and with 6 packs we give a fine Nicle-Plated Pocket Fruit knife. Try us once. We want an agent in every city and town. We give fine premiums, or we will allow you to retain 25 cts. on eah Dollars worth of orders sent. Send stamp for Premium List, Circulars, and how to become an agent. It pays. Address Star Card Co., East Boston, Mass., Text is printed in red ink., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Star [P.2017.95.166]

Title: The abolition Garrison in danger & the narrow escape of the Scotch Ambassador
Description: Anti-abolition print celebrating the 1835 attack on William Lloyd Garrison in Boston by "gentleman of property and standing" preceding his scheduled speaking engagement before the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Depicts Garrison at the center of an angry mob of white men. He has a noose around his neck and his newspaper "The Liberator" in his pocket and yells, "Help Children of Africer - help brothers." Scottish abolitionist George Thompson, who was rumored to be the Society's speaker, flees the scene attired in a women's clothes. He states with a Scottish burr that he will not be a "Martyr in sie black cause." As the mob screams, "Down with the incendiary abolitionists," and calls for Garrison's lynching and arrest, Garrison is being pulled by the noose by several of the rioters and steps upon editions of the "Evening Post" and "Human Rights," serials sympathetic to the abolitionist cause., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text on recto: Boston Oct. 21st, 1835., Purchase 1958., 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.
Date: [1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1835-10W [6259.F]

Title: Abolition Hall The evening before the conflagraton at the time more than 50,000 persons were glorifying in its destruction at Philadelphia May - 1838
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist anti-abolition cartoon depicting a busy street scene with the hall being used as an interracial brothel by the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women on May 16, 1838. The convention, held during the week of interracial ceremonies and services celebrating the opening of the building, fulminated the racist fears of the local citizens, and on May 17th, a mob set the hall aflame, razing the building. Depicts well-dressed interracial couples, including a pair of children, strolling, kissing, and cavorting in the street and near the windows of the building. Among the couples, a Black man frolics upon a broadside referring to abolitionist David Paul Brown, a Philadelphia lawyer who spoke on May 14th, the day of dedication of the hall., Title from item., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Illustrated in Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, eds. The Abolitionist sisterhood (Ithaca: Cornell University Press in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1994), p. 228., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., McAllister Collection, gift, 1884., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Theaters & Halls - Pennsylvania Hall [(6)1332.F.113b]

Title: Abolitionist
Description: A man, one half of his body shown as a white man and the other half as an African American man, lectures in front of a small table. He holds an umbrella with his African American hand, as well as wears no shoe on his African American foot., Text: Whew! don't you know that you're played out? That your occupation's gone? Why do you make such fuss about that poor old well-pick'd bone? Or are you lost, so far corrupted, You can't improve 'till re-constructed?
Date: ca. 1865-1866

Title: Abolitionist Philanthropist.
Description: The valentine depicts a well-dressed white man gesturing to a seated African American man whose head, feet, and buttocks are disproportionately large. The "burs" suggest the seated man does field work, and his trousers are ragged., Text: O, massa Abolitionist! you're mighty fond of jokes, / And play em on de darkey as well as on white folks / But all your mighty promises dey neber come to pass, / And every we take your chair de burs stick in / our ---- trouserloons., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [not after 1865]

Title: [Abraham Lincoln caricature satirizing the draft]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln feeding a bottle of the "Black Draft" to a haggard looking man who sits with his feet in a tub. The bottle of "Black Draft" contains figures of African Americans., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Bispham - Caricatures and cartoon [5792.F.4g]

Title: Abraham's dream! "Coming events cast their shadows before."
Description: Cartoon lampooning Lincoln's belief in prophetic dreams and fear of losing the presidential election of 1864. Above the dreaming, sleeping body of Lincoln, Democratic candidate George McClellan arrives at the White House. He witnesses Liberty, depicted as a white woman, hurling the decapitated head of an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, at a fleeing Lincoln as he states, "This don't remind me of any joke!!" Lincoln is attired in a plaid Scotsman's cap and cape, an allusion to his disguise in response to an assassination threat before his first inauguration, and carries an inscribed scroll, "To whom it may concern," a reference to his written edict that he would only receive, not seek, offers of peace from the Confederacy., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1864, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., Probably drawn by Louis Maurer., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-41 [6374.F]

Title: An absorbing subject
Description: Racist trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American man lying on top of a barrel and drinking from it with a straw. Shows the barefooted man, portrayed with exaggerated features, and attired in a straw hat, a striped shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and patched and torn pants. He lies straddling on top of a wooden barrel and rests his head in his hands. He closes his eyes as he drinks from a straw through a hole in the barrel. The barrel has a label pasted on it and is marked “XXX.” In the foreground, a painter’s palette leans against the front of the barrel., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - Absorbing [P.2017.95.195]

Title: Accept Your Own.
Description: "Accept your own" depicts a woman walking purposefully. Her apron and simple dress suggest that she is likely a working woman. The verse implies sexual rejection., Text: I'd scorn to keep aught that is yours, / I'd feel myself above it; / Take, then, the above, I want it not, / Nor you, nor it, I covet., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Adams Tampico Chewing gum. Each wrapper has a different Picture and joke, from "The Judge."
Description: Gum wrapper for Adams & Co. depicting a cartoon originally published in the satiric magazine "The Judge" and showing two African American men (Mister Johnson and Brother Snow) portrayed in racist caricature conversing in the vernacular on a dirt path after church services. The man in the left has a beard and is attired in a long overcoat, pants, and a top hat. He holds a "prayer" book and umbrella under his left arm and gestures to the other gentleman with his right arm. The gentleman in the right has a beard, wears glasses, and is attired in an over coat, striped pants, and top hat. He holds an umbrella as a walking stick in his left hand and carries a book under his right arm. He looks toward the gesturing man. Part of a wooden fence and skyscape are also visible. The Brooklyn gum manufacturer Adams & Co. operated circa 1871-1899. In 1899 Adams merged with six other chewing gum companies to form American Chicle Company., Title from item., Date inferred from content reproduced from The Judge., Caption: A Miracle. "What wuz de tex' dis mornin', Mister Johnson? I wuz too late."/"It wuz about de meracles, Brother Snow. Whar de Lor' fed seven people on five t'ousand baskets of fish."/ "I don't see any meracle about dat."/"Oh, de meracle am, dey all didn't bust.", Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - Packaging - A [113538.D]

Title: Admiration.
Description: "Admiration" depicts a man observing a woman who is seated on a park bench. He is smoking a cigar, and his jacket is too small for his waist, but his pocket chain, tie, plaid wiastcoat, and hat suggest an interest in fashion. The woman, who is reading a book, is seated in a position that reveals her calves below her pink walking dress; she does not appear to notice the man., Text: I saw her in the garden / A readin' of a book/ I couldn't help admirin' / Well, -- say the maiden's look! / I wondered if she knew it, / And turned again to see; / For, if I thought she did, I vow, / My valentine she should be., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: The adventures of a conscript as told by himself
Description: Collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards using humanized animals to portray domestic and military scenes in the life of a conscripted rabbit. Includes cards showing the rabbit reviewing a "Draft" poster and declaring himself a patriot if drafted; the rabbit receiving the "agonizing fact" of his draft notice; his failed attempt to employ a substitute - a "Quack" of a duck rejected by a donkey of a surgeon (Dr. Donkey); his farewell to his love; his "fearful carnage" of the foe; his retreat to make "a sturdy rebel fly"; his successful "perilous duty" to deliver "despatches" to an owl general, including a confrontation by "a band of Gorillas," portrayed as racist caricatures, and his beheading of the Gorilla Chief; his promotion to Brigadier General; and his release from duty to "crown his glory with love" in wedded bliss., Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from series title., Date from copyright statement by William A. Stephens., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Described in Gathering history: The Marian S. Carson Collection of Americana. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999), p. 91., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Henry Louis Stephens Collection [5780.F.56a-l]

Title: An affecting scene in Kentucky
Description: A racist cartoon ridiculing Kentucky congressman Richard M. Johnson, the 1836 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, for his common-law marriage to Julia Chinn, a multiracial woman. Depicts Johnson, with the "New York Courier and Enquirer" falling from his hand, as he grieves over the "scurrilous attacks in the newspapers on the mother of my children." His daughters, Adaline and Imogene, attired in evening dresses, comment on his "affected state" and hold a framed portrait of their mother, attired in a turban. Surrounding Johnson are Democrats pledging support, including a postmaster, a well-dressed African American man, who speaks in the vernacular, and a gaunt white man abolitionist holding the Connecticut newspaper the "Emancipator." Another white man supporter comments on Johnson's agitated state., Title from item., Publication information supplied by Reilly., Purchase 1958., 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.
Date: [1836]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1836-15 [6277.F]

Title: Affection.
Description: "Affection" burlesques domestic disturbance. The husband and wife stand facing each other; she is armed with a sword, and he holds a riding crop over his head. The room is in disarray, with a chair and a three-legged table overturned. The text and image suggest that marriage ends in conflict, and the sender attempts to dissuade the recipient from it. Also visible in the room are a framed picture, a fireplace with a vase of flowers on the mantle and a kettle on the grate, an alarmed cat, drapery with a tie-back for a multipaned window, and carpeting., Text: O, this is the way 'twill be with us, / When we've been wed a year; / We'll be at it, shovel and tongs, / I promise you, my dear! / Like the poor cat upon the hearth, / We'll both be in hot water; / The hair will fly, the wife will cry,/ the table fall, the baby squall / And the fire get hot and hotter., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: [African American attired in a cap]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired in a cap. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man portrayed with exaggerated featured facing left. He is attired in a yellow and orange cap with a black brim. An orange shirt collar is visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 8 [P.2017.95.261]

Title: [African American boy and white girl on a candy stick seesaw]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American boy and a white girl on a candy stick seesaw. In the left, shows the white girl attired in a large, white bonnet; a yellow dress with red polka dots; a blue and white checked smock; orange stockings; and brown shoes, sitting on a red and white striped candy stick. In the right, the barefooted African American boy, attired in an orange shirt and gray pants, sits on the other side of the candy see saw. The fulcrum is a piece of chocolate., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 23 [P.2017.95.234]

Title: [African American boy butler carrying a bouquet of flowers]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy butler. Shows the full-length portrait of the boy attired in a white shirt and bowtie, a yellow waistcoat, an orange jacket with tails, white gloves, blue pants, and white and black boots. He smiles as he carries a bouquet of flowers in front of him in his right hand. He holds a black top hat and a letter in his left hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.295]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 1 [P.2017.95.254]

Title: [African American boy butler carrying a bouquet of flowers]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy butler. Shows the full-length portrait of the boy attired in a white shirt and bowtie, a yellow waistcoat, an orange jacket with tails, white gloves, blue pants, and white and black boots. He smiles as he carries a bouquet of flowers in front of him in his right hand. He holds a black top hat and a letter in his left hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.254]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 43 [P.2017.95.295]

Title: [African American boy doorman carrying a bouquet of flowers]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy doorman or butler. Shows the full-length portrait of the boy attired in a white shirt and bowtie; long, blue coat with gold buttons and trim; white gloves; and white and black boots. He looks at the viewer and smiles as he carries a bouquet of flowers in his left hand. He holds a black top hat with a gold band and a letter in his right hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 2 [P.2017.95.255]

Title: [African American boy in tree reaching for eggs in a bird’s nest]
Description: Racist trade card promoting Joshua Walker’s bone fertilizer and depicting a caricature of an African American boy in a tree trying to take bird eggs from a nest. The barefooted boy is attired in a straw hat that is torn at the top and on the brim and a white, long-sleeved shirt that covers to his thighs. The shirt has a large tear on the left shoulder exposing his chest and arm. With his mouth open, the boy stands on a branch in a tree full of pink flowers. He holds a branch with his right hand and reaches his left hand towards a bird’s nest with two eggs. A yellow and black birds flies away in the lower left. Joshua Walker was a fertilizer merchant who was active circa 1880s-1900 in Baltimore, Md., Title supplied by cataloger., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of the advertised business., Date inferred from the date supplied in the advertising text on the verso., Advertising text printed on verso: Sample No. 1747. Selected at McKnightsto[?]. Office Penn’a Board of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., June 2, 1894. Analysis by Dr. Wm. Frear, Chemist, Pennsylvania State Board of Agr State College P.O., Centre Co., Penn’a. Manufactured by Jo[sh]ua Walker, Baltimore, Md. Name of Fertilizer, -Ec[onomical] [Amm]oniated Bone. Moisture….15.10 a/c 302 [?]g, Bagging, &c.,.. Souluble Phosphoric Acid, …6.68 a/c 134 lbs per ton,…Reverted “ 2.17 a/c 43 “” …Insoluble “” 1.28 a/c 26 “”… Potash…1/14 a/c 23 “” …Nitrogen…1.45 a/c 29 “”… Comparative Commercial value per ton, …, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Walker [P.2017.95.186]

Title: [ African American boy playing soldier]
Description: Reproduction of a Thomas Nast drawing showing an African American boy, portrayed as a racist caricature and attired in a striped, collared shirt, torn and worn pants, and boots. He holds a broom like a rifle and marches near a pile of hay., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from Thomas Nast drawing., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51c]

Title: [African American boy shoe shine being kicked by a white boy clown]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a white boy clown kicking an African American shoe shine boy from behind. In the right, the white boy, attired white clown costume with a white cap decorated with a blue ball, a white shirt with ruffles at the neck and waist, white pants with a ruffle at the cuffs, white stockings, and blue shoes, carries a jump rope in both hands. He smiles at the viewer and kicks his left foot propelling the shoe shiner into the air. The shoe shiner is attired in a blue jacket with tails, white pants, black stockings, and brown shoes. His top hat, shoe shining stool, and open can of shoe polish fly away from him., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 27 [P.2017.95.238]

Title: [African American child touching the hair of a crying white baby]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American child, portrayed with exaggerated features, touching the hair of a crying white baby. Shows the barefooted, smiling, African American child, attired in a long-sleeved white layette, seated behind a white child. Both of their hands touch the hair on top of the head of the white baby seated below, who cries with a look of alarm on their face., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 20 [P.2017.95.231]

Title: [African American delivery man with a bag of coffee]
Description: Racist trade card depicting a genre scene showing an African American delivery man making a delivery to a residence. Shows the man standing on the front steps of a townhouse, looking at the door, and smoking a cigarette. He carries a basket full of packages over his left arm and holds in his right hand, a package of coffee, which is torn. Beans spill out of the package. The man is attired in a black bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a brown jacket, blue pants, a white apron, and black shoes. Image also includes an iron gate in the right., Title supplied by cataloger., Publication information from copyright statement: Copyright R. Hoyt 1882., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 17 [P.2017.95.228]

Title: [African American domestics holding a white sheet]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting caricatures of two smiling African American domestics portrayed with exaggerated features and holding a white sheet. In the left, shows an African American man, attired in hoop earrings; a blue and white striped collared shirt; a red vest; purple pants; yellow striped socks; and black shoes with buckles, holding two corners of a white sheet in his hands. A red and green feather duster lies on the ground at his feet. In the right, an African American woman, attired in a yellow head kerchief with red dots; hoop earrings; a white, beaded necklace; a white, short-sleeved shirt; a pink vest; a blue skirt; white socks; and yellow shoes with red bows, holds the opposite two corners of the sheet. A broom rests against her right shoulder., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 5 [P.2017.95.216]

Title: [African American girl frightened by a spider]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American girl scared of a spider, which has come down in front of her. Shows the African American girl portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white lace dress with a red belt, red stockings, and black shoes. She sits on a wooden bench surrounded by plants and flowers. She has a frightened expression on her face as a spider on a thread has come down right in front of her., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Oversize. Housed with *Trade Cards - Misc., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 22 [P.2017.95.233]

Title: [African American girl laughing with an infant on her lap]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American girl laughing with an infant on her lap. In the right, shows the African American girl, attired in a red and white checked dress, sitting on the floor. She tilts her head back in laughter as she holds a white infant, attired in a white layette and a triangular paper hat. In the left, a blond-haired white girl, attired in a white dress and red shoes, looks on., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 4 [P.2017.95.215]

Title: [African American infant sitting on a blanket]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American infant girl sitting on a blanket. Shows the African American infant, attired in a white dress with pink checks, sitting on top of a pink and yellow blanket. She looks and smiles at the viewer and holds the skirt of her dress in her hands. She sits in a field with sunflowers behind her., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 11 [P.2017.95.222]

Title: [African American man at the window with a white cloth]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man holding a white cloth out of the window. Shows the African American man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white collared shirt with red stripes and a blue vest. He stands at an open window with his head and upper torso outside of the building and holds a white cloth in both hands, which hangs out of the window. The exterior of the building is yellow brick., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 13 [P.2017.95.224]

Title: [African American man attired in a black top hat decorated with a gold band and blue flower, a white collared shirt, a gold jacket with epaulettes, and gold hoop earrings]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired in a black top hat decorated with a gold band and blue flower, a white collared shirt, a gold jacket with epaulettes, and gold hoop earrings. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man facing to the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.276]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 41 [P.2017.95.293]

Title: [African American man attired in a black top hat decorated with a gold band and blue flower, a white collared shirt, a gold jacket with epaulettes, and gold hoop earrings]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired in a black top hat decorated with a gold band and blue flower, a white collared shirt, a gold jacket with epaulettes, and gold hoop earrings. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man facing to the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.293]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 24 [P.2017.95.276]

Title: [African American man attired in a brown hat and smoking a cigar]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired in a brown hat, a white collared shirt, a red and white striped tie, a brown jacket, and a gold earring. The bust-length portrait of the man faces right as he smokes a cigar., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 25 [P.2017.95.277]

Title: [African American man attired in a gray hat and smoking a cigar]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man smoking a cigar. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man, attired in a gray top hat with a red band, gold hoop earrings, a white collared shirt, a green and blue bowtie, and a red jacket. He has a cigar in his mouth and looks to the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 21 [P.2017.95.274]

Title: [African American man attired in a gray hat with a blue striped band, a pink collared shirt with blue polka dots, and a green striped tie]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired a gray hat with a blue striped band, a pink collared shirt with blue polka dots, and a green striped tie. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man smiling and looking to the left., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 22 [P.2017.95.274x]

Title: [African American man attired in a white collared shirt and beige bowtie]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired a white collared shirt and beige bowtie. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man facing left with his mouth open. He is portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white collared shirt and beige bowtie., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 11 [P.2017.95.264]

Title: [African American man attired in spectacles, a black top hat, a white shirt with an oversized collar, a red bowtie, and a plaid, beige jacket]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man attired in spectacles, a black top hat, a white shirt with an oversized collar, a red bowtie, and a plaid, beige jacket. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man smiling as he looks down., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 23 [P.2017.95.275]

Title: [African American man holding a cigar]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man holding a cigar. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man attired in a white top hat with a blue band, a white shirt with an oversized collar, a white bowtie with red dots, and a blue jacket. He looks at the viewer and smiles as he holds a cigar in his left hand. Red, pink, and white flowers are in the left foreground., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 4 [P.2017.95.257]

Title: [African American man holding on to a bucking donkey]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man holding on to a bucking donkey. Shows the man, attired in a black top hat, a white jacket, blue pants, red socks, and black shoes, grasping on to a bucking donkey. He wraps his arms around the donkey’s neck and his legs press against the donkey’s back as he tries to hold on. His eyes and mouth are opened wide. The gray donkey sinks his head down and kicks his back legs up., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 31 [P.2017.95.283]

Title: [African American man jockey]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man smiling and facing left. He is attired in a red and yellow jockey cap and a red and yellow jockey shirt, which has a yellow tie., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 18 [P.2017.95.271]

Title: [African American man jockey]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey attired in a red jockey cap with yellow stripes and a blue band, a white collared shirt and bowtie, a red jacket, and a gold earring. Shows the bust-length portrait of the man smiling and facing to the right., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 26 [P.2017.95.278]

Title: [African American man looking through a hand lense]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man looking through a hand lense or magnifying glass. Shows the man attired in a red top hat with a black band, a white collared shirt, a white bowtie with a gold pin, a yellow waistcoat, a blue jacket with gold buttons, off-white gloves, and red and white striped pants. He stands facing to the left and looks through a hand lense or magnifying glass, which he holds in his right hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 34 [P.2017.95.286]

Title: [African American man ministrel playing the bones and dancing]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man minstrel playing the bones and dancing. Shows the full-length portrait of the man attired in a white collared shirt and bowtie, a white waistcoat with blue polka dots, a green and orange jacket with tails, red and white striped pants, and brown shoes. He jumps up in a dance step with his right leg up. He plays the bones in his left hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 3 [P.2017.95.256]

Title: [African American man minstrel]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel dancing. Shows the African American man, portrayed with exaggerated features and spindly arms and legs, attired in a black top hat with a peacock feather, yellow gloves, a white shirt with an oversized collar, a yellow and black striped bowtie, a green jacket with tails, pink leggings, and black shoes. He smiles at the viewer with both hands out to his sides and his left foot forward in a dance step., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 9 [P.2017.95.220]

Title: [African American man minstrel bowing holding a banjo]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel holding a banjo. Shows the African American man minstrel portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a brown top hat, a blue and white striped shirt with an oversized collar, a yellow bowtie, an orange jacket with tails, a rose boutonniere, green pants, and black buckled shoes. He stands facing to the right slightly bend over as though taking a bow, with his left hand out at his side. He holds a white banjo by the neck in his right hand., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 18 [P.2017.95.229]

Title: [African American man minstrel dancing]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel dancing. Shows the African American man, portrayed with exaggerated features and spindly arms and legs, attired in a white shirt with an oversized collar, a blue tie, a green jacket with tails, green pants, and white shoes. He smiles broadly with his arms pointed down and out to the sides and his left foot back in a dance step., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 7 [P.2017.95.218]

Title: [African American man minstrel dancing with a cigar]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel dancing. Shows the African American man, portrayed with exaggerated features and spindly arms and legs, attired in a black top hat, white gloves, a white collared shirt, a red tie, a brown jacket, orange pants, and black shoes. He sways to the left and places his left hand on his hip. He crosses his right arm across his body and holds a lit cigar between his fingers. His right foot comes forward in a dance step., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 8 [P.2017.95.219]

Title: [African American man minstrel playing a drum]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel drummer. Shows the man, in near profile, smiling and beating drumsticks on a drum strapped to his chest. He is attired in black shoes; pants with a stripe; a white jacket with flowers and long tails, with large buttons; a white ruffled shirt with a high collar; and a white top hat with a black band., Title devised by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Printed in blue ink., Text stamped on recto: [No.] 478, 4 designs, price $1.55 per 1000., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 3 [P.2017.95.214]

Title: [African American man minstrel playing the accordion]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man minstrel playing an accordion. Shows the man, portrayed with exaggerated features, attired in a white collared shirt, a blue tie, a brown jacket, blue and white checked pants, pink socks, and brown shoes. He smiles at the viewer as he plays the accordion, holding it in both hands in front of him., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 42 [P.2017.95.294]

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