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Title: La Bamboula
Description: Racist trade card specimen depicting a caricature of a dancing Black boy. Shows the bare-chested boy, attired in a red, white, and blue feathered headdress and skirt and gold hoop earrings, necklace, bracelets, and anklets. His feet lift off of the ground, and he holds his hands up as he dances and smiles. On the ground beside him is a spiked, wooden club. In the background, green jungle foliage is visible., 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. - And he got [P.2017.95.197]

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]
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 woman dancing]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American woman dancing. Shows the woman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a red hat decorated with flowers, gold bracelets, a dress composed of a yellow, blue, and white pattern with a red and black sash and flowers at the waist, orange stockings, and yellow shoes. She holds her skirt up with her hands and lifts her right leg up in a dance step., 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. 24 [P.2017.95.235]

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: [An African woman carrying an infant, an African man carrying bones, and an African woman carrying a scepter dancing]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African woman carrying an infant, an African man carrying bones, and an African woman carrying a scepter dancing. Shows the bare-breasted African woman, in the left, attired in a red headband, gold hoop earrings, a gold necklace, gold bracelets and armlets, a pink, blue, and white striped skirt, and pink shoes, smiling as she looks at the viewer. She carries a green and red umbrella in her right hand. Her left hand reaches to the smiling infant, wrapped in a gold cloth, on her back. In the center is the barefooted African man, attired in gold hoop earrings, gold bracelets and armlets, a gold necklace, a red feather in his hair, yellow and orange striped shorts, and gold anklets, carrying bones in each hand. His left leg is lifted up in a dance step as he waves his arms over his head. He opens his eyes and mouth wide as he looks at the viewer. In the right, the bare-breasted, barefooted African woman has her hair tied back with orange ribbons and is attired in gold hoop earrings, a white lace collar, gold armlets, white and blue bracelets, and a yellow, pink, and white striped skirt. She twists her body in a dance step as she smiles and looks up toward the gold scepter that she carries in her hands., 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 32 [P.2017.95.284]

Title: [African American man minstrel playing the bones]
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man minstrel playing the bones and dancing. Shows the full-length portrait of the man portrayed with an oversized head and attired in gold hoop earrings, a blue jacket with yellow trim and tails, a white waistcoat, and green bowtie with red polka dots, yellow and red striped pants, and black shoes. He looks at the viewer and smiles as he holds bones in both of his hands. His legs are bent and his heels are off the ground as he dances on the grass., 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 30 [P.2017.95.282]

Title: [African American man minstrel playing the banjo]
Description: Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man minstrel playing the banjo. Shows the full-length portrait of the man attired in a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie with white polka dots, a white waistcoat, a white jacket with red polka dots and tails, yellow pants with blue stripes, and black shoes. He looks at the viewer and strums a banjo as he lifts his left leg up in a dance step., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual material., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 44 [P.2017.95.296]

Title: Dr. W. W. Wogan
Description: Racist trade card promoting dentist Dr. William W. Wogan and depicting a caricature an African American woman dancing. Shows the woman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in floral headband, red hoop earrings, green gloves, a pink dress with a white collar and white lace petticoat, and white shoes. She holds her skirt up with her left hand and sticks her left foot forward in a dance step. She tilts her face to the left and curves her right arm up. William W. Wogan (1864-1934) was a dentist in York, Pa., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Go to Dr. Wogan, to have your teeth extracted. Full sets of teeth from $5.00 to $10.00. All kinds of work done as cheap as elsewhere and satisfaction guaranteed. 12 W. Market Street, York, PA., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Wogan [P.2017.95.193]

Title: Ask your grocer or druggist for Law's Bluing. Each package makes one quart of bluing strong enough for ink, and will blue, bleach, or color very nicely for rag carpets
Description: Racist trade card with a trompe l'oeil and montage aesthetic depicting a dancing African American minstrel. Shows the slim-legged figure composed of the head of a baby and a caricaturized body in minstrel attire of striped pantaloons and a cropped jacket with long tails. The minstrel holds up a circular-shaped sign through which his head pokes out. Tear marks surround the minstrel's face which is slightly turned to the left. Sign also contains advertising text., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from promotional text printed on recto: Sample sent by mail on receipt of price - 15 cts. T.S. Laws, South Butler, N.Y., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Laws [P.2017.95.107]

Title: On the o high o! Compliments of Goodwin brothers, wheel-wrights
Description: Racist trade card promoting wheelwrights the Goodwin Brothers and depicting caricatures of African Americans on a wooden barge “on the o high o,” i.e. Ohio River. In the right, two men stand and row using long oars. The man in the left is attired a hat, a blue jacket, and blue plaid pants, and the man in the right is attired in a hat, a white shirt, and green pants. In the left is a man seated on a stool playing a fiddle attired in a hat, a white jacket, and blue pants. The man in the center, attired in a hat, a green plaid shirt, and blue pants, dances with his left leg and arm raised up. Another man, attired in a hat, a white shirt, and blue pants with a straw in his mouth, watches the dancer while lying on the barge on his stomach propping his head up with his elbows. Behind the fiddler a woman, attired in a green head kerchief, a blue dress with polka dots, and a beige apron, claps her hands and taps her foot to the music. In the far left is a house with a man standing against the wall, and a boy that runs toward the barge. In the background is a white steamboat on the river. Brothers James K. Goodwin (1844-1910) and Charles W. Goodwin (1853-1943) were wheelwrights in Manchester, New Hampshire., Title from item., Date from the history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on the verso: Goodwin Brothers, manufacturers of wheels and carriage wood work of every description. Also dealers in hubs, spokes, rims, shafts, bodies, seats, carriage gear &c. Hubs turned and mortised. Sawing and planing to order. Carriages built to order, complete. Special attention given to repairing. 441 Elm Street, Hodge’s Building, Manchester, N.H. J.K. Goodwin. C.W. Goodwin., Series number printed on the recto: 450., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Goodwin [P.2017.95.73]

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