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Trade card for B.B. Roberts' Lodging House, Lawrence, Mass., 1880-1890

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1880-1890

Location Note

Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Hotels and Taverns: Massachusetts

GUSN

GUSN-189457

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Description

This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.

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This trade card for B. B. Roberts' Lodging House at 439 Essex Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts, depicts two boys tripping a woman in a field while other people pick cotton.

Details

Descriptive Terms

racial discrimination
hotels (public accommodations)
taverns
laborers
trade cards (advertising)

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0006

Physical Description

1 trade card: chromolithograph

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.062.04.01.006

Image Dimensions

2 13/16 x 4 9/16 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Lawrence (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

B.B. Roberts' Lodging House
J.H. Bufford & Co. (Lithographer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

African Americans
Cotton picking
African Americans in advertising
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Agricultural laborers

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Hotels and Taverns: Massachusetts

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