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Title: Nurse.
Description: A simian nurse sits in a chair next to a baby in a craddle. A bottle marked "laudinum" [i.e. laudanum] is on the shelf above her, and she threads a needle. The border features a woman embracing a man; the pair resemble Commedia dell'arte characters. At the bottom is a pack of matches marked "Lucifer's matches.", Hush-a-by, baby! / Your slumbers be light, / With laudanum, maybe, / You're not on a "tight.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: That Blessed Baby.
Description: A father stands next to his child, and the mother is in bed behind them., Text: From the breaking of morn to the close of the day, / You delight that bless'd baby in the cradle to rock; / And you grin with delight, when you hear the folks say, / "La! isn't it a perfect chip, off the Old Block.", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

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: Bless'd Baby.
Description: A smiling woman holding her baby as she looks him. The baby holds a mallet up in the air and has his finger in his mouth. The valentine mocks the ill-behaved baby and his parents' misplaced affection for him., Text: Papa's pride-- "de yittle beauty / "Mamma's comfort," cross it may be, / Like his Papa-- "ain't he pooty,"/ Crowing, screaming, blessed baby., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: You Darling Pet.
Description: A naked baby sits on pillow. He holds a piece of cloth and his mouth and has large eyes., Text: Pick him up and walk the floor, / Twenty times a night or more ; / If he was mine, I’ll tell you what, / I’d pitch him out into the lot. / He’s got his mamma’s ogling eyes -- / He’s got his papa’s yellow tint -- / He hasn’t got a nose at all -- / And jingo! How the brat does squint. / Swing your leg, and give him a lift, / I wouldn’t have him for a gift., Provenance: Helfand, William H..
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: The Young Mother.
Description: A woman holds out her infant and smiles. The infant holds a knife and a doll., Text: From early dawn, you love to walk, / And play, and prattle baby talk; / You think that never other lady, / Had half so nice a little baby., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: The Wet-Nurse.
Description: A man turns up his nose as he changes the diaper of a infant lying on his lap., Text: Child-like spooney, here are you, / To your own vacation true; / With the babe upon thy knee, / Drivelling even like to thee. / Wretched papspoon, sawney driveller, / Beggard, hound, and fireside sniveller, / Take this picture to thy sight, / And hang thyself by morning's light., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Wet Nurse.
Description: A man sits on a chair with an infant on his lap. A bowl marked "pap" [i.e., mashed baby food] is on the table next to him, and the infant reaches for it. The man appears to be changing the baby's diaper., Text: To rock the cradle, make the pap, / Or change the baby's linen, / I plainly see e'er long you'll be, / Much better than the women., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Return of a Three Year's Volunteer.
Description: A Union soldier stands near a doorway and observes his wife changing his child's diaper. The valentine suggests that the realities of domestic life are shocking after military service., Text: Your time is up and you have come, / With blast of bugle -- roll of drum, / What meets your gaze? your tidy wife, / And the stern realities of life., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: Ayer's cathartic pills. (The country doctor)
Description: Racist trade card promoting Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.’s Cathartic Pills and depicting a caricature of an older African American man doctor administering Ayer’s pills to an infant girl on his lap. Shows the African American man with white hair and a white beard, attired in spectacles, a brown hat, a white collared shirt, a brown bow tie, a green waistcoat, a green jacket, green pants, and black shoes. He sits on a wooden chair and holds an infant African American girl, attired in a red dress with yellow polka dots and a white collar, on his lap. In his left hand he carries a box filled with white pills, and in his right hand he holds a single white pill. The infant carries a pamphlet labeled "Ayer’s pills" in her hands. In the left, a barefooted African American boy, attired in a blue and white checked shirt and orange and yellow striped overalls, kneels beside the chair and looks on. On the ground in front of the boy is an open medicine bag labeled “Dr. Bolus” and filled with containers labeled, Ayers. James Cook Ayer (1818-1878) was a successful patent medicine manufacturer who estabished a factory in Lowell, Mass. After his death, J.C. Ayer & Co. continued to manufacture medicine under the management of his brother Frederick Ayer (1822-1918). After Frederick's death, the company continued to operate under the management of family members and professional managers until it left Lowell in 1943., Title from item., Publication information and date from the copyright statement: Copyright, 1883, By J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., Advertising text printed on verso: Ayer’s pills supply the universal want of a safe and reliable purgative medicine. The disorders which they are designed to cure, and for which they prove a sure remedy, are all caused by the derangement of one or more of the digestive and assimilative organs, and include constipation or costiveness, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, heartburn, loss of appetite, flatulency, foul stomach, nausea, dizziness, headache, numbness, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, and disorders of the liver. Eruptions and skin diseases, and piles, when the result of indigestion or constipation, are cured by the use of Ayer’s pills. They are, also, often the best remedy for rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, dropsy, kidney complaints, and other disorders arising from a reduced condition of the system, or the obstruction of its functions. In colds they operate beneficially by opening the pores, removing inflammatory secretions, and allaying fever. Ayer’s pills are made of vegetable ingredients only, and may be administered even to children with perfect safety. They are sugar-coated, and pleasant to take; and for all the purposes of a cathartic medicine they are unequalled. Ayers’ pills are usually put up in oval wooden boxes; but for hot and damp climates, and for export, in sealed glass vials, as above represented. Sold by., Text printed on verso: “The Country Doctor.” A fine Chromo-Lithograph (7 ½ x 13 inches, in “Statuette” style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent, post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant Album Cards, on receipt of 10 cents in cash or postage stamps. Address, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - J.C. Ayer [P.2017.95.91]

Title: Sanford's ginger
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a smiling African American girl holding a crying African American baby in a watermelon carved in the shape of a bassinet in her lap. The girl is attired in a red and yellow dress with white lace ruffles and sits atop a large watermelon. Her hair is styled into pigtails with blue ribbons. The baby is attired in a white ruffled dress. The girl holds a bottle of Sanford's Ginger in her right arm and a piece of watermelon in her left hand. Light emmanates from behind the girl and baby and they are surrounded by wasps. Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation was founded as Weeks and Potter in the mid-19th century. The company changed its name to Potter Drug and Chemical Company in 1883 and was incorporated as the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation in 1899., Title from item., Advertising text on verso: Sanford's Ginger. The delicious summer medicine. Prepared with the utmost skill from imported ginger, choice aromatics, and the purest and best of medicinal French brandy, from the world-renowned vintners, Messrs. Otard, Dupuy & Co., Cognac, rendering it vastly superior to all other "gingers," all of which are made of common alcohol, largely impregnated with poisonous fusil oil, and strengthened with cayenne pepper. Unripe fruit, impure water, unhealthy climate, unwholesome food, malaria, epidemic and contagious diseases, cholera, morbus, cramps, pains, indigestion, diarrhœa, colds, chills, simple fevers, exhaustion, nervousness, or loss of sleep that beset the traveller or household at this season, are nothing to those protected by a timely use of Sanford's Ginger, the delicious summer medicine. As a pure fruit stimulant, for the aged, mentally and physically exhausted, careworn or overworked, for delicate females, especially mothers, for those recovering from debilitating diseases, and as a means of reforming those addicted to an excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, it is unequalled in the whole range of medicines. As a beverage, with hot or cold water, sweetened, or hot or cold milk, or added to ice water, lemonade, effervescent draughts or mineral waters, it forms a refreshing and invigorating beverage, unequalled in simplicity and purity by any tonic medicine, while free from alcoholic reaction. Avoid mercenary dealers, who, for a few cents' extra profit try to force upon you their own or others, when you call for Sanford's Ginger. Sold by wholesale and retail druggists, grocers, etc., everywhere., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Sanford [P.2017.95.152]

Title: Sanford's ginger
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a smiling African American girl holding a crying African American baby in a watermelon carved in the shape of a bassinet in her lap. The girl is attired in a red and yellow dress with white lace ruffles and sits atop a large watermelon. Her hair is styled into pigtails with blue ribbons. The baby is attired in a white ruffled dress. The girl holds a bottle of Sanford's Ginger in her right arm and a piece of watermelon in her left hand. Light emmanates from behind the girl and baby and they are surrounded by wasps. Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation was founded as Weeks and Potter in the mid-19th century. The company changed its name to Potter Drug and Chemical Company in 1883 and was incorporated as the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation in 1899., Title from item., Advertising text on verso: Sanford's Ginger. The delicious summer medicine. Prepared with the utmost skill from imported ginger, choice aromatics, and the purest and best of medicinal French brandy, from the world-renowned vintners, Messrs. Otard, Dupuy & Co., Cognac, rendering it vastly superior to all other "gingers," all of which are made of common alcohol, largely impregnated with poisonous fusil oil, and strengthened with cayenne pepper. Unripe fruit, impure water, unhealthy climate, unwholesome food, malaria, epidemic and contagious diseases, cholera, morbus, cramps, pains, indigestion, diarrhœa, colds, chills, simple fevers, exhaustion, nervousness, or loss of sleep that beset the traveller or household at this season, are nothing to those protected by a timely use of Sanford's Ginger, the delicious summer medicine. As a pure fruit stimulant, for the aged, mentally and physically exhausted, careworn or overworked, for delicate females, especially mothers, for those recovering from debilitating diseases, and as a means of reforming those addicted to an excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, it is unequalled in the whole range of medicines. As a beverage, with hot or cold water, sweetened, or hot or cold milk, or added to ice water, lemonade, effervescent draughts or mineral waters, it forms a refreshing and invigorating beverage, unequalled in simplicity and purity by any tonic medicine, while free from alcoholic reaction. Avoid mercenary dealers, who, for a few cents' extra profit try to force upon you their own or others, when you call for Sanford's Ginger. Sold by wholesale and retail druggists, grocers, etc., everywhere., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Sanford [P.2017.95.153]

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