[African American boy in tree reaching for eggs in a bird’s nest] [graphic].

[African American boy in tree reaching for eggs in a bird’s nest] [graphic].

Walker, Joshua.

African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Birds.

Boys.

Eggs.

Fertilizer industry -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Nests.

Racism in popular culture.

Afro-Americana.

Racist trade card promoting Joshua Walker’s bone fertilizer and depicting a caricature of an African American boy in a tree trying to take bird eggs from a nest. The barefooted boy is attired in a straw hat that is torn at the top and on the brim and a white, long-sleeved shirt that covers to his thighs. The shirt has a large tear on the left shoulder exposing his chest and arm. With his mouth open, the boy stands on a branch in a tree full of pink flowers. He holds a branch with his right hand and reaches his left hand towards a bird’s nest with two eggs. A yellow and black birds flies away in the lower left. Joshua Walker was a fertilizer merchant who was active circa 1880s-1900 in Baltimore, Md.

Library Company of Philadelphia

[Baltimore] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1894]

1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 3 in.)

Goldman Trade Card Collection - Walker [P.2017.95.186]