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Title: The Start
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man riding in a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a red cart, smiling and looking at the viewer. He holds the reins to the brown horse, which trots and pulls the cart in the right. He also carries a black whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.269]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 35 - The start [P.2017.95.287]

Title: In danger
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man trying to control the horse pulling the cart he is riding in. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a two-wheeled cart. He opens his mouth in alarm as he pulls back on the reins of the brown horse hauling the cart. The horse’s mouth is open as it runs off making the cart jerk, causing its right wheel to lift off of the ground. The man also carries a whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.270]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 13 - In Danger [P.2017.95.266]

Title: The Finish
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves; and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.268]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 14 - The finish [P.2017.95.267]

Title: The Finish
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves, and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.267]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 15 - The finish [P.2017.95.268]

Title: The Start
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man riding in a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a red cart, smiling and looking at the viewer. He holds the reins to the brown horse, which trots and pulls the cart in the right. He also carries a black whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.287]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 16 - The start [P.2017.95.269]

Title: In danger
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man trying to control the horse pulling the cart he is riding in. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a two-wheeled cart. He opens his mouth in alarm as he pulls back on the reins of the brown horse hauling the cart. The horse’s mouth is open as it runs off making the cart jerk, causing its right wheel to lift off of the ground. The man also carries a whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.266]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 17 - In Danger [P.2017.95.270]

Title: Fred C. Davis, land surveyor and insurance agent, Felchville, VT., will insure against all kinds of accidents
Description: Trade card promoting surveyor and insurance agent Fred C. Davis and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man on a horse-drawn plow. Shows the man barely seated, leaning back, and with his legs in the air on the plow. He holds broken reins in his hands to a brown horse running away in the left. The man is depicted with exaggerated features. His mouth is open in alarm. He is attired in brown boots, blue checked pants and shirt, and a brown vest. His hat has flown off his head behind him. The roof of a house is visible in the left background. Fred C. Davis was an insurance agent in Vermont circa 1884 - circa 1921., Title from item., Series number on recto: 468., Text printed on recto: Over., Text printed on verso: Insurance companies represented. Assets January 1, 1888. Phoenix, of Hartford...$4,778,469.00. Phenix, of Brooklyn... 5,054,179.51. North British & Mercantile, of London and Edinburg... 3,301,747.00. New England, of Rutland... 125,414.40. Vermont Mutual...3,530,434.82. Fitchburgh Mutual. Travelers (Life and Accident) of Hartford...9,111,589.68., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Davis [P.2017.95.40]

Title: Kerr & Co., 34 Walker St. N.Y
Description: Trade card promoting Kerr & Co.’s thread and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man using Kerr’s thread to move a safe onto a cart. In the right, shows an African American man, attired in a yellow hat, an orange shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and green pants, standing on the back of a cart pulled by two white horses. He turns the handle attached to an oversized spool of “Kerr’s Cotton” thread, which is pulling a large, black safe labeled, “Herring’s Champion New York; Kerr & Co., 34 Walker St. N.Y.” onto the cart. A white man, attired in a black hat, an orange shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows, and green pants, stands behind the safe to steady it. In the left, a crowd of people look on to the scene, including a white man police officer; a brown haired white girl attired in an orange hat, an orange dress with a white lace collar and a blue sash at the waist, and white stockings and shoes; a white man with a black mustache, attired in a black top hat, a white shirt, a black jacket, a yellow coat, and white pants and shoes; and a white woman attired in an orange hat with a white feather, an orange dress with white checks, and a black shawl. Above them a crane holds an oversized spool of black thread labeled, “Kerr & Co. Warranted 200 yds machine thread. Six cord (40) soft finish.” In the right is a building where people look through the windows at the scene. In the second story window in the left are two white men with mustaches attired in white collared shirts and blue jackets. In the right window are two white women attired in an orange dress and a blue dress respectively and hats. The building reads, “six-cord, soft-finish, new spool cotton.”, Peter Kerr (1818-1869) was a thread manufacturer who moved to the United States in 1866 and opened a factory in New York City. He partnered with his brother-in-law George A. Clark's thread company. Clark & Company later merged with J.&P. Coats in 1896., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on recto: Kerr's cotton never breaks. It is a safe thread., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Kerr [P.2017.95.97]

Title: A happy new year
Description: Greeting card depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey riding a bucking horse in the snow. Shows the African American man jockey attired in a yellow jockey cap, a yellow vest, a pink shirt, a blue bowtie, white breeches, and black boots. He sits on a white horse that is kicking its back legs and hitting a snowman in the right. The snowman has a pipe in his mouth and a large pine branch in his hands. The jockey has lost hold of the reins, which dangle from the horse’s mouth, and his whip is in the snow., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Happy [P.2017.95.244]

Title: Clark's mile-end 60 spool cotton
Description: Racist trade card promoting Clark Thread Company and depicting a genre scene of an African American man and woman in conversation on a country road. The man and woman are portrayed with exaggerated features and speaking in the vernacular. Shows, in the left, the man standing on a dirt road and holding a piece of thread attached to a giant spool labeled "Clark's mile-end 60 spool thread." He is attired in black boots; yellow striped pants with patches on the knees and rolled to his calves; a white shirt; a red vest; and a green jacket. His straw hat is upturned on the ground beside him. In the right, an African American woman sits in a horse-drawn wagon holding the reins to a white horse. She tells the man "luck I got a spool to mend yer clos' with." She is attired in a yellow head kerchief and a red dress with yellow trim at the neck. The George A. Clark & Brother Company, manufactory of embroidery and sewing thread, was founded in 1863 in Newark, N.J. The firm was renamed Clark & Co. in 1879, and in the 1880s created a six-cord, soft finished thread called "Our New Thread" or "O.N.T." The business merged with J. & P. Coats in 1896, which lead to a series of mergers with fourteen other companies. Into the 21st century, the company continues to manufacture thread under the name Coats & Clark., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Text on recto: Ef dat mile end thread don't hold, dere ain't anything- lucky I got a spool to mend yer old clos' with., Advertising text printed on verso: Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton is the best for hand and machine sewing. Clark's Mile-End Colors are made expressly to match the leading shades of dress goods, and are unsurpassed both in quality and color. Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton is six-cord in all numbers to 100 inclusive., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clark [P.2017.95.33]

Title: Kendall's Spavin Cure
Description: Trade card promoting B.J. Kendall Company, manufacturer of proprietary medicine, and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey portrayed with exaggarated features. Shows the jockey at the reins of a brown race horse running at full speed, its legs lifted off the ground, and two of its shoes flying through the air. The jockey grips the reins of the horse over which he is prone and suspended above. He exclaims in the vernacular, "I only ’plied jist six bottles of Kendall’s Spavin Cure...so he can go in 2:05 3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16." The jockey is attired in a red buttoned jacket and red plaid pants. His red and white striped jockey's cap and one of his black boots have flown off and trail behind him. In the background a wooden fence lines the grounds. An African American man with exaggarated features attired in blue pants and a red plaid shirt and with his mouth open and arms raised in alarm stands within the entryway to the fence. A wooden sign posted on the fence reads, "2.05 3/8." Burney James Kendall (1845-1922) founded the B.J. Kendall Company in Enosburg Falls, Vermont in 1879. Kendall Company was incorporated in 1883. The success of Kendall's Spavin Cure spurred the firms line of products to expand to proprietary medicines for other animals in addition to people. The Company declined and closed in 1957 following the invention of automobiles., Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and genre of print., Text printed on recto: "Hi! Dat hoss can jist fly now. I only 'plied jist six bottles of Kendall's Spavin Cure, and it hab taken off all dem four ringbones, two spavins, one curb, two splints, one capped hock and a shoe bile, so he can go in 2:05 3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16. Dat boy nebber shall fly wid dat hoss agin, for he am liable to fly off de track if he 'creases dat speed.", Copyright secured., Advertising text printed on verso: Kendall's Spavin Cure. The great success which has attended the introduction of Kendall's Spavin Cure, in all parts of the United States, has never been equalled, and it is now considered by the very best veterinary surgeons and most extensive horse-owners in the country to be the greatest discovery in veterinary science of the nineteenth century. It is giving the very best of satisfaction wherever urged. A few reasons why: 1. It does not blister or cause any sore, which makes it a desirable liniment for man or beast. 2. It is sure in its effect. 3. It cures spavins, splints, ring-bone, curb, callous, sprains, swellings, galls, lameness, from whatever cause, in any part of the body or limbs. 4. As a household liniment it has no equal. Its effect on human flesh is marvellous. It is used with the most gratifying results in all cases of lameness or any deep-seated pains, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, corns, bunions, frost bites, felons, chillblains, burns or any pain, bruise, cut or lameness which are not affected in the least by ordinary liniments. Kendall's Spavin Cure. Kendall's Spavin Cure, refined expressively for Human Flesh, in red wrappers, price $.50. Kendall's Spavin Cure, in light wrappers, for Animals, price $1.00. The Spavin Cure in light wrappers can be used on human flesh with perfect safety, if desired. B.J. Kendall & Co., Proprietors. Enosburgh Falls, Vt., U.S.A. Sold by all druggists., Testimonial printed on verso: Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 13, 1880. Dr. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: -- I have a very fine mare that has had a bone spavin for a long time. I tried everything man could devise to cure it, but all in vain, and was about to give it up, when a friend of mine in this city came to me and recommended Kendall's Spavin Cure, which I tried with grand results, removing that bone clear and clean; and then I sent twenty-five cents to you for one of your Illustrated Horse Books, and I think there is no better book printed on the horse and his diseases. I have taken great interest in it, and have since sold eighteen copies for you to my neighbors, and will try and do what good I can by getting them for others. Yours truly, G.W. Miller., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - BJ Kendall [P.2017.95.10]

Title: Use Dannemiller's Cordova coffee, in 1 pound papers, because it's the best
Description: Racist trade card promoting Dannemiller Coffee Company and depicting a genre scene with an African American boy jockey, white children, and a horse. In the left, the jockey, attired in riding boots; white breeches; a white shirt and red vest; and a red and white jockey cap, stands beside a brown horse onto which he helps a white boy mount. He holds the bridle in his left hand and leans down to help the boy place his foot into the stirrup with his right hand. In the center, the white boy, attired in a Fauntleroy outfit with black boots and hat, grips the saddle to hoist himself up onto the horse. In the right, a smiling white girl with long, brown hair looks at the viewer. She descends a set of stairs holding the railing. She is attired in black shoes, a yellow dress with blue trim, stockings, and a bow in her hair. She carries a doll costumed in a red and white dress with matching red shoes and hat. A greyhound faces the girl at the base of the stairs. Edward Dannemiller (1850-1939) and his son Albert J. Dannemiller (1879-1955) founded Dannemiller Coffee Company in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1904. The Company operated through the mid-twentieth century., Title from item., Place of publication from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: A fair trial is all we ask, and we are sure of the result, if you take quality into consideration. It's merits are unequaled. Don't be deceived judge fore yourself. Lasst euch nicht batriigen urtheilt fiir euch selbst. A beautiful picture with each package., Manuscript note on verso: Stella Leonard., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dannemiller [P.2017.95.39]

Title: It stands at the head. "Domestic" sewing machine
Description: Racist trade card promoting Domestic Sewing Machine Company and depicting a caricaturized genre scene of an African American family looking to their right at a billboard on the side of a building. The figures are portrayed with exaggerated feaures. Shows an older, squat man, a woman, and three children seated and standing in a horse-drawn cart halted on a dirt road. An older boy stands behind the cart. The man, attired in a top hat; a ragged jacket; a shirt with bowtie; and pants with patches on the knees and suspenders sits smiling and holding in his hands a stick and the reins of his horse that wears blinders. The woman, attired in spectacles; a straw hat with a decorative ribbon that is tied under her chin in a bow; a long-sleeved dress; and a shawl stands up inside the cart. She holds a baby in her left arm and points at the billboard with her right hand. A boy attired in a long shirt and pants sits beside the man in the front of the cart. Behind the man, a girl attired in a bonnet stands. The boy outside of the cart is barefooted and attired in a cap; a shirt; and ragged pants with a hole at the knee, and carries a basket. A dog, its tail between its legs, hunches underneath the cart. In the left, the billboard is illustrated with a sewing machine in the center of a star with the advertising text around it. Text reads: "It stands at the head : Copyrighted by the "Domestic" Sewing Machine Co. The star that leads them all. Unequalled for simplicity of construction ease of operation and durability. The light running "Domestic" sewing machine." In the distant right background a house is visible. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Distributor's imprint printed on recto: E.R. Bumps, jeweller, Waldoboro, ME., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Domestic [P.2017.95.51]

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