ca. 1885
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Beverages
GUSN-190969
This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
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This trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company depicts a boy standing in a line with British soldiers. The card is labeled: "Carry arms, on a hot day."
advertising
business (commercial function)
tea
trade cards (advertising)
Project number HNE0103
2 trade cards : color illustration : chromolithograph
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.045.02.01.002
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (Manufacturer)
trade cards (advertising)
African American men
African Americans
African Americans in advertising
Beverages
Black People
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Included in the Boston African Americana Project.
Item
American Revolution ; card no.2
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Beverages
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