View down Main Avenue in Agricultural Hall. Prominent is a wooden cow at the mincemeat display, containers of biscuits and crackers, and a Tufts soda fountain. Exhibit titles: Atmore & Son, Philadelphia, Pa., Exhibit #147; Larrabee, E.J., & Co., Albany, N.Y., Exhibit #258; Tufts, Jas. W.,Boston, Mass., Exhibit #n/a, Agricultural Hall, Bldg. #152.
Die-cut trade card specimen shaped like a top hat and depicting racist caricatures of an African American woman on a balcony talking on a tin can telephone to an African American man minstrel. Shows the African American woman, attired in a yellow dress, leaning over the balcony of a palatial building, while holding a tin can telephone on a string to her right ear. On the ground, the African American man minstrel is portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white top hat with a black band, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a white waistcoat, a black jacket with tails, red and white striped pants, and black shoes. He stands holding the other end of the tin can telephone to his right ear. A banjo lies at his feet., 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. 29 [P.2017.95.239x]
