Fred C. Davis, land surveyor and insurance agent, Felchville, VT., will insure against all kinds of accidents [graphic].

Fred C. Davis, land surveyor and insurance agent, Felchville, VT., will insure against all kinds of accidents [graphic].

Afro-Americana.

Surveyors -- Vermont -- Felchville.

Insurance agents -- Vermont -- Felchville.

Human-animal relationships.

African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Farming.

Trade card promoting surveyor and insurance agent Fred C. Davis and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man on a horse-drawn plow. Shows the man barely seated, leaning back, and with his legs in the air on the plow. He holds broken reins in his hands to a brown horse running away in the left. The man is depicted with exaggerated features. His mouth is open in alarm. He is attired in brown boots, blue checked pants and shirt, and a brown vest. His hat has flown off his head behind him. The roof of a house is visible in the left background. Fred C. Davis was an insurance agent in Vermont circa 1884 - circa 1921.

Library Company of Philadelphia

Boston : J.H. Bufford’s Sons, 1884.

1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 8 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)

Goldman Trade Card Collection - Davis [P.2017.95.40]