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ca. 1800 advertising cards: most chromolithographs; most 11 x 17 cm. (4.25 x 6.5 in.) or smaller.

4 prints : chromolithographs ; 11 x 7 cm. (4.25 x 2.75 in.)

Card, probably a collecting, comic, or trade card specimen, depicting an illustration of an African American man and woman harvesting corn. They are wearing straw hats and depicted with exaggerated features.

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…

Trade card with a racist illustration of an African American woman dancing in a pink dress. She is wearing green gloves and has flowers in her hair. She is portrayed with exaggerated features.

Racist trade card promoting William S. Scull & Company’s Champion Coffee and depicting a caricature of an African American man riding a mule while carrying bags of Scull’s coffee. The barefooted man is portrayed with exaggerated features and is…

Racist trade card depicting a comic scene showing an African American barber shaving a pig in a barber shop. The barber, in the left,is depicted holding a razor in his right hand and the pig’s snout in his left. The man is attired in a white shirt…

Racist trade card promoting I. Knopf’s shoe store and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man portrayed with exaggerated features and carrying two bouquets of flowers. Shows the rotund, African American man attired in a yellow hat, a…

Racist trade card promoting James S. Kirk & Co.’s Satinet soap and depicting a caricature of an African American boy carrying an oversized branch of cotton and a red cloth that trails behind him. Shows the African American boy attired in a torn straw…