Lily White "the flour the best cooks use," Valley City Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. [graphic].
Title
Lily White "the flour the best cooks use," Valley City Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich
Description
Racist trade card illustration depicting a vignette of a smiling African American infant sitting in a yellow high chair. A cup of water is overturned on the table attached to the high chair and water spills over the edge. The baby gestures toward the cup with her right hand puts her left index finger in her mouth. The barefoot child is attired in a blue, red, and white plaid dress and a white bib with red embroidery. Lily White flour was manufactured by the Valley City Milling Company, which was established in 1884 and eventually became known as the Grand Rapids Roller Mills., Title from item., Advertising text on verso: Your children will not hanker after cake and other injurious dainties so much if you provide them wiht light, sweet tasting bread made of Lily White, "the flour the best cooks use." This bread has the good old fashioned bread flavor which children like and the more they eat of it the better their general health will be. Give them more bread and less meat. Always for sale by the dealer who gave you this card. Valley City Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Valley [P.2017.95.181]
Try King's quick rising buckwheat. It is the best. The cook likes it [graphic].
Title
Try King's quick rising buckwheat. It is the best. The cook likes it
Description
Racist trade card promoting King Cereal Manufacturing Company and depicting a caricature of an African American woman domestic serving pancakes to a white couple while an African American man cook smiles in the kitchen. Shows the African American woman domestic, attired in a red dress, a white apron, and a white bonnet, holding her apron up in her hands while looking at the viewer and winking her eye. In the right, a brown-haired, white man with a mustache attired in a black suit, a white collared shirt, and black shoes and a white woman with brown hair in a bun and attired in a blue dress, sit in wooden chairs at a table covered with a white tablecloth. The white woman looks at the viewer as she wipes her mouth with a white napkin. On the table is a plate of pancakes, a coffee pot, glasses, and a condiment tray with various bottles. Through a doorway in the left background, the African American man cook, attired in a white chef’s hat and jacket, a white apron, pants, and black shoes, smiles as he stands behind a table with a box of King’s Quick Rising Buckwheat. In the right on the wall are two framed pictures and a large window with white curtains. Image also includes a red rug and a wooden chair with a green cushion. Edward King (d. 1907) founded King Cereal Manufacturing Company in 1861 in Chicago. He sold his interest in the firm to H. Horner & Co., wholesale grocers in 1903. The firm continued operations into the 1920s., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: We manufacture and sell all the package goods name[?] King’s Quick Ris[ing] Flour, King’s Quick Rising W[heat] For Biscuit, &c. Mrs. Hopper’s Pan[cake] a splendid substitu[te] [spe]cially adapted King’s R[ising] [?]ne Breakfast “Cut Oat Meal. “White Hominy. “Corn Grits or Samp. “Farina. (From the Best Wheat.) “Golden Corn Meal. “Silver Corn Meal. “Flaked Hominy. The best preparation of Corn ever placed on the market. Makes a delicious breakfast dish or after dinner dessert., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - King [P.2017.95.98]