1880-1890
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Cleaning: Household Soaps and Polishes
GUSN-190964
This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
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This trade card promotes Welcome soap manufactured by Curtis Davis & Co. The image is labeled "Photography under a cloud." A photographer takes a picture of men and children.
racial discrimination
advertising
soap (brick)
trade cards (advertising)
Project number HNE0101
1 trade card : chromolithograph
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.021.02.04.032
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Curtis Davis & Co. (Manufacturer)
trade cards (advertising)
J.H. Bufford & Co.
African Americans in advertising
African American men
African American children
Black People
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Included in the Boston African Americana Project.
Item
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Cleaning: Household Soaps and Polishes
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