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Title: [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
Description: Location: 326 North Second Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright originally dated image as ca. 1854., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Creator: Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
Date: August, 1847.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W003.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W3 [P.2001]

Title: John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by G. Heiss.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W200.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W200 [P.2117]

Title: Soapine is the very best washing powder
Description: Trade card for the Philadelphia branch of the Kendall Manufacturing Company containing a view by English artist and illustrator Helena Maguire who specialized in country scenes of animals and women. Shows a group of three rabbits in front of their hutch. One sniffs a lettuce leaf., Title from advertising text printed on verso. Text also reads: New Large Package, 5c. Former 5c. Package reduced to 3c. Quality Guaranteed. to get one of our magnificent Mounted Pictures, bring 25 Whales cut from the packages, or 10 Whales and 15 Fronts of Wrappers from Kendall Mfg. Co.'s Soaps to our Office, 1207 Fairmount Ave., Phila, Pa. They cannot be mailed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.57]

Title: Use Queen Anne Soap I'se a waiting
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a full length portrait of an African American woman walking a small brown dog. The woman is attired in an elaborate orange, yellow, and green feathered bonnet, a blue and red dotted and frilled dress with white and blue details, a pendant, white and yellow fingerless gloves, red stockings, and black heeled shoes. She holds the dog's leash and a red and blue fan in her left hand and a blue parasol in her right hand. Visible behind her is a large yellow ribbon which is attached to the back of her dress. The woman leans forward while jutting out her backside and stands with her right foot in front of her left. The woman is portrayed with exaggerated features. Queen Anne Soap was owned by the Detroit Soap Company, which in 1915 was acquired by the Buffalo-based Lautz Bros. & Co., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Advertising text on recto: Purest and best in the world., Series number on recto: 58., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Queen [P.2017.95.145]

Title: Dallett, Elijah. J., 1825-1863
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 20, 1856

Title: [Van Haagen's Toilet Soap, Benj. Brooke & Co., Manufs., Philadelphia trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a man holding a bouquet of flowers standing with two women; a man with an envelope approaching a woman standing at a mirror; a couple walking with arms clasped and a poodle by their side; and a soldier peering over the shoulder of a woman who pulls petals off of a flower., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.898 & 901] contain distributor's imprint printed on bottom of rectos in black text: McIlvaine & Co., grocers, S.E. cor. Chestnut & Juniper Sts., Philadelphia., Two prints [1975.F.899 & 900] contain advertising text printed on bottom of rectos in black text: 1st Regiment Bouquet Toilet Soap for sale at soap stand in the fair., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the purity, quality and general superiority of the soap produced by Benjamin Brooke & Co. with the expertise of Mr. A. Van Haagen, formerly of McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Van Haagen's [1975.F.898-901]

Title: Lavine, Hartford Chemical Works, 30 Union Place. Try Lavine for washing
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting boys and girls playing with sailboats in a wash tub. One boy paints "Lavine" on laundry hanging in the background. Title appears on two wooden boxes in the left foreground., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Geo. S. Adams, manufacturer's agent, No. 117 North Second Street, Philadelphia., Advertising text printed on verso: Lavine for washing. The best and cheapest article every offered to the housekeeper. Ask your grocer for it and take no other. It has taken the highest awards at the American Institute Fairs, in October, 1880 and 1881, as well as the First Premium at every state and county fair where exhibited. Do not pay 15 cents a pound for a washing compound, when you can buy a better one for 13 cents. Make sure that your grocer give you Lavine. It makes the hardest water soft and will not injure the finest clothes. It does not burn the hands nor chap them in winter. Try it for washing your marble steps, floors, sinks, milk pans, or anything which may need washing., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lavine [1975.F.513]

Title: Shirrell's Kulliyun washing crystal, Shirrell & Co., Buffalo, N.Y The great labor saver
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a woman attired in a sheer white blouse that exposes the upper half of her body. She holds over her head a box of Shirrell's Kulliyun Washing Crystal and props her right foot next to a washboard on an overturned washtub. Draped over her arm is a multi-colored banner reading "the great labor saver"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humani+ties (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **trade card - Shirrell [1975.F.2a]

Title: Bush & Co.'s borax soap company, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy sitting on a rock near a body of water playing with a model sailboat. Bush & Co. was operated by John V. and Van Camp Bush., Manuscript note on verso: Chester., Contains advertising text printed on verso: Always buy Bush & Co's improved borax soap, because it is made of the purest and best materials. It is the best laundry soap--making your clothes clean and sweet, with very little labor. It works equally well in hard or soft, or in salt water. It is a splendid luxury for the toilet or bath; wonderful in its beneficial action on the skin, equaling the imported castile soap. It is remarkably good for washing the head, cleansing the scalp and rendering the hair soft and glossy. It is the most economical, being sold at a reasonable price, and one cake will do as much work as two cakes of the ordinary, so-called cheap soaps. Ask your grocer for Bush & Co.'s borax soap and take no other., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bush [P.9651.3]

Title: John Bancroft, Jr. soap and candle manufactory. No. 19, Wood St. betw. 2nd & 3rd Sts. & Vine and Callowhill Sts. Philadelphia Palm, white, variegated, yellow and brown soaps, mould & dipped candles, with all the varieties of fancy soap
Description: Advertisement showing the factory on the 200 block of Wood Street. Signs reading "Steam Soap & Candle Manufactory" and "John Bancroft Jr." adorn the manufactory (left) and smaller adjoining office building (right). A clerk, writing in an account book, stands at the doorway of the office in which another clerk is visible in a lower window. Near the adjacent arch to the alleyway to the rear courtyard, a boy carries a box on his shoulder and laborers hoist boxes from a receiving window to a long factory wagon parked on the cobblestone street. A sign reading "Jno Bancroft Jr. Soap and Candle Manufacturer 19 Wood St." adorns the wagon. A barrel and boxes are stored in the courtyard. Boxes and molds are piled in front of upper floor windows. Factory also contains a second archway, cellar doors, a fire insurance marker, and smokestacks spewing smoke., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 407, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [June 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W200 [P.2117]

Title: Try Lavine for washing
Description: Racist trade card promoting Hartford Chemical Works, manufacturers of Lavine Soap, and depicting a scene showing African men in a three-way race. In the center, a man with a white beard, attired in a red-striped turban and robe, smokes a pipe while riding an elephant in full stride and strapped with two large boxes labeled, "Lavine Soap Washing Hartford." To the right front of the elephant, another man, bare chested and attired in a red loincloth, runs slightly ahead of the animal. In the distant right of the image, a third man attired in a red turban, cloak, and yellow shorts races on horseback near a temple. Palm trees are also visible in the background. In the lower right are two, stacked boxes labeled, "Lavine, Hartford Chemical Works 30 Union Place. Try Lavine for Washing." Hartford Chemical Works, located in Hartford, Connecticut, was established in 1879 by Albert B. Gillett. Gillett patented Lavine Soap in 1882. The company operated until at least 1889., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Lavine for washing. The best and cheapest article ever offered to the housekeeper. Ask your grocer for it and take no other. It has taken the highest awards at the American Institute Fairs, in October, 1880 and 1881 as well as the first premium at every state and county fair where exhibited. Do not pay 15 cents a pound for a washing compound, when you can buy a better one for 13 cents. Make sure that your grocer gives you Lavine. It makes the hardest water soft and will not injure the finest clothes. It does not burn the hands nor chap them in winter. Try it for washing your marble steps, floors, sinks milk pans or anything which may need washing., Distributor’s name on verso: Geo. S. Adams, Manufacturer's Agent, No. 117 North Second Street, Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Adams [P.2017.95.2]

Title: [A. H. Eckhardt. Soap & candle manufactory, No. 326 N. Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story storefront for the manufacturer on North Second Street between Noble and Green streets (i.e., 500 block). A store clerk, possibly the proprietor stands at the open doorway, a quill in one hand and the other resting on a stack of boxes. He watches a laborer load boxes onto the "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer No. 326 N. 2nd Street" horse-drawn wagon parked in the street. Boxes, jars, crates, and other small containers adorn the large display window and a crate resting on a table is visible through the doorway. The store is also adorned with poles for an awning; a section of side awning reading "A.H. Eckhardt Soap & Candle Manufacturer"; advertising signs at the doorway; and a fire insurance marker. Augustus H. Eckhardt ran the chandler business from the address 1848-1856., Wainwright dates image as circa 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 6, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W3 [P.2001]

Title: Gold Dust Washing Powder
Description: Racist die cut trade card illustration advertising a cleaning agent. Image depicts a pair of smiling identical twin African American boys sitting in a wooden tub filled with soapy water. The boys each have an arm wrapped around one another and the boy on the right rests his left arm on the edge of the tub. The boys are both depicted with exaggerated features. Gold Dust Washing Powder was created in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank Soap Company, which was based in New York, and was distributed by the Lever Brothers Company, which was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The "Gold Dust Twins," "Goldie" and "Dustie," were introdued in the 1890s and were the faces of the brand until the 1950s., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business., Advertising text on verso: Best purest Gold Dust Washing Poweder does more work in less time with less labor than any other at less than half the cost. Buy our large package--it means economy to the consumer. See that the trade mark The "Twins" is on every package. Made only by The N.K. Fairbank Company, Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Montreal., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - N.K. Fairbanks [P.2017.95.136]

Title: Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio
Description: Racist trade card promoting soap manufacturer Enoch Morgan's Sons Company and depicting African American women domestics cleaning a parlor. Shows an African American woman, attired in a head kerchief; hoop earrings; a polka dotted dress with the sleeves rolled up to her upper arms; and black shoes, on her hands and knees cleaning a floor with a brush in her right hand. There is a wooden bucket beside the woman. In the right, another African American woman, attired in a short-sleeved dress with a bustle and checked skirt, stands cleaning the molding of a doorway with a cloth. In the background is a lit fireplace and mantle with vases on top of it. Enoch Morgan's Sons Company began manufacturing Sapolio soap in 1869 in New York. Peruvian company Intradevco Industrial SA purchased Sapolio in 1997., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Distributor's imprint stamped on recto: Tom S. Culver, Dealer in surplus [?] teas, coffees, [?] and flour. Canned, dried, and [?] vegetables, etc. Choice brands of [?] tobacco. A fine [?] Ithaca, N.Y., Advertising text printed on verso: There is no one article known that will do so many kinds of work in and about the house and do it so well as Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio. (Each cake is wrapped in tin foil, and surrounded with Ultramarine Blue Band, and bears the above device.) Always note this. A cake of Sapolio, a bowl of water and a brush, cloth or sponge will make House Cleaning an easy and quick job--Will clean paint and all painted surfaces-- Will clean marble, mantels, tables and statuary-- Will clean oil-cloths, floors, shelves, &c. -- Will clean bath tubs, wash-basins, &c. -- Will clean crockery, glassware, &c. -- Will clean kitchen utensils, of all kinds--Will clean windows without splashing of water -- Will polish tin, brass, and copperwares-- Will polish knives as you wash them-- Will polish all metal surfaces and Will clean all household articles -- and is better and cheaper than soap, emery, rotten stone, &c. Price 10 c. per cake. Illustration of a white man looking at the bottom of a pan that reflects his face as a mirror., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Enoch [P.2017.95.59]

Title: [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]

Title: [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]

Title: [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]

Title: [Advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Advertisements predominantly for sponsoring businesses not located on Chestnut Street, including George S. Storr’s Chemical Hair Invigorator, No. 68 North Eighth Street; H. P. & W. C. Taylor, Manufacturers of the Only Real Transparent Soap, Ninth, between Green & Coates Street; E. G. A. Baker, Manufacturing Jeweler, Northeast corner Branch & Fourth Streets; T. L. Buckingham, Dentist, 162 Race Street, below Fifth; music publisher Lee & Walker, 162 Chestnut Street; and C. G. Henderson & Co. Philadelphia Central Book & Stationery Warehouse, 164 Chestnut Street. Most of the advertisements contain several lines of promotional text. Storr’s text details the results of use of the product, including prevention of premature grayness and improved disposition of curled hair; testimonials; and a word of caution about impostors. Lee & Walker promote their title list, including asterisked items containing a lithograph cover. Henderson & Co. notes the "aim of proprietors to sell at the lowest rates"; "the Beauty and Elegance of Its Pictorial Department"; and their stationery merchandise. Taylor advertisement promotes their award wining and new varieties of soap, as well as contains a wood engraving of the exterior of the factory on the 600 block of North Ninth Street. Image includes a train traveling toward the building and pedestrians and a patron in front of the building., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 18.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 18 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Advertisements predominantly for sponsoring businesses not located on Chestnut Street, including George S. Storr’s Chemical Hair Invigorator, No. 68 North Eighth Street; H. P. & W. C. Taylor, Manufacturers of the Only Real Transparent Soap, Ninth, between Green & Coates Street; E. G. A. Baker, Manufacturing Jeweler, Northeast corner Branch & Fourth Streets; T. L. Buckingham, Dentist, 162 Race Street, below Fifth; music publisher Lee & Walker, 162 Chestnut Street; and C. G. Henderson & Co. Philadelphia Central Book & Stationery Warehouse, 164 Chestnut Street. Most of the advertisements contain several lines of promotional text. Storr’s text details the results of use of the product, including prevention of premature grayness and improved disposition of curled hair; testimonials; and a word of caution about impostors. Lee & Walker promote their title list, including asterisked items containing a lithograph cover. Henderson & Co. notes the "aim of proprietors to sell at the lowest rates"; "the Beauty and Elegance of Its Pictorial Department"; and their stationery merchandise. Taylor advertisement promotes their award wining and new varieties of soap, as well as contains a wood engraving of the exterior of the factory on the 600 block of North Ninth Street. Image includes a train traveling toward the building and pedestrians and a patron in front of the building., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 18.
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 18 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: Day's soap does it Washee, washee, see him rub on his washboard in the tub; see him wash and smile with glee for he's from hard labor free; with Day's soap his work is done when his rivals just begun
Description: Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1887 by Day & Frick., Racist metamorphic trade card showing a caricaturized Chinese man laundry worker washing a sheet on a wash board in a washtub. Includes a tab that when pulled lifts the washer's arms up and down to reveal the text "Day Soap" on the wash board. The man wears his hair in a queue and is attired in a long-sleeved, blue collared shirt with buttons down the front, blue pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes. He smiles and looks to the right. The tub rests on a table beside a bar of soap, labeled “Day’s Soap.” On the ground behind the table is a basket of laundry. Sheets hang on a drying line. In the background, the wall has Chinese-stylized decorations including a gold wallpaper depicting birds and fish and a purple and gold wall hanging that reads, “Day’s Soap.” Peter Day founded the Day & Frick soap manufactory firm in 1886. He retired as president of the firm in 1917., Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program., RVCDC, John D. Avil founded the Avil Printing Company (also known as John D. Avil & Co.) in West Philadelphia and managed it from the early 1860s until his death in 1918.
Date: [1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Day's [P.2012.62.8]

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