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Do They Miss Me at Home

Jalapa coffee. [graphic].

Do they miss me at home? [graphic].

Foh yo' birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin' foh you! [graphic].

[African American girl laughing with an infant on her lap] [graphic].

[African American girl frightened by a spider] [graphic].

The best, ask for it again: Star Braid. [graphic].

I tell you, sure de best place to buy pianos, organs, or any kind o' musical merchandise is at Link & Bond's, 20 East Market Street, York, PA. An' dat's a certain fact. [graphic].

The best, ask for it again: Star Braid. [graphic].

Boy's department. Commonwealth Clothing House, 680 & 684 Washington St., (cor. Beach) Geo. W. Warren, Manager [graphic].

United we stand. Divided we fall [graphic].

Five Brothers plug tobacco "the best" [graphic].

Happy Lil' Sal as the queen of the May. [graphic] / R.F. Outcault.

Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. [graphic].

United we stand. Divided we fall [graphic].

Kendall M'f'g. Co. Providence. R.I. French laundry soap [graphic].

Dis Union. Union. John E. Kaughran & Co., 763 Broadway, Bet. 8th and 9th Streets [graphic].

Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. [graphic].

Golden Cottolene, N.K. Fairbanks & Co. Chicago. [graphic].

Cottolene [graphic].

Sanford's ginger [graphic].

Sanford's ginger [graphic].

Pore lil' Mose sends his Pa a valentine. [graphic] / R.F. Outcault.

Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. [graphic].

Photographing the Baby

Sunday. Yer looks lubly Ephraim, and it all comes using dat Higgins soap [graphic].

Saturday. Whoa! Dar Sambo! What do yer mean, what makes yer jump and shout? I will wash yer clean with Higgins' soap, and then yer may jump out [graphic].

[Series of Clarence E. Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes, cor. West & West 12th St. N.Y. racist 1880 calendar illustrations after the "Blackville" series] [graphic].