Illustrated trade card for Joseph Kailler, a Russian carpenter and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1895. Contains a vignette of a single family dwelling., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kailler [P.2002.67.7]
Racist, greeting card depicting a caricature portrayed with exaggerated features of an African American child's face. The oversized child's face looks directly at the viewer and purse's their lips. The interior image has a depiction of the same child with pink skin color. The child speaks in the vernacular to "strike me pink if it ain't yo' anniversary." The card is printed on pink paper., Title from item., Date inferred from history of the publisher., Manuscript written on recto: Louis & Ellis- from Wendy & Shie. The "me" in "strike me pink" is crossed out and "us" in written in manuscript., Text printed on interior: Ah hopes yo' has a million mo' each one bettah dan de one befo'!, Manuscript written on interior: drawings of four stick figures, each with an illegible name. "An hopes yo'" has been crossed out and "We" and "yos" is written in manuscript., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[after 1913]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Strike [P.2017.95.251]