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[African American infant sitting on a blanket] [graphic].
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…
[African Americans picking cotton with a cotton compress] [graphic].
Racist, trade card specimen depicting African Americans picking cotton on a plantation. In the left foreground, shows an African American man, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and shoes, carrying a basket on his back filled with cotton.…
[African American man smiling and carrying a watermelon] [graphic].
Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man smiling and carrying a watermelon. Shows the full-length portrait of the man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white collared shirt with blue stripes, a yellow…
Foh yo’ birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin’ foh you! [graphic].
Birthday card depicting a racist caricature an African American girl standing as flowers grow over a fence and towards a house. Shows the African American girl portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in an orange dress with purple polka dots,…
He’p yo’se’f to grapefruit from sunny Florida [graphic].
Post card depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy in a grapefruit orchard. Shows the barefooted boy smiling at the viewer and attired in a red collared jumpsuit with a belt. He holds the branches of a grapefruit tree that is laden…
Strike me pink if it ain’t yo’ anniversary! [graphic].
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…
[African American boy butler carrying a bouquet of flowers] [graphic].
Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy butler. Shows the full-length portrait of the boy attired in a white shirt and bowtie, a yellow waistcoat, an orange jacket with tails, white gloves, blue pants, and white and black…
The way to wealth or Poor Richard improved / by Benj. Franklin. [detail images of binding]
Library Company copy printed on vellum; bound in gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco, with gold-tooled dentelle; gold-tooled blue moiré silk doublures; gilt edges; binder’s ticket: Courteval, relieur, rue des Carmes, no. 1.
[No. 18 West 14th St. New York - Feb. 12th 1870. Dr. S. B. Collins. Dear Sir, It is now more than ten days since I received your note consulting to the arrangement which I had proposed and promising to send me a package of your remedy for use with a patient whom I was very anxious to save from Opium-eating and who, I believe, would be a very readily treated subject. ... ]..
Letter written in MS. by Fitz Hugh Ludlow and addressed to Dr. S. B. Collins, regarding a patient of Ludlow’s and an unfulfilled order of Collins’ remedy.