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Trade card for the Acme Tea Company, as sold by J. Buckley, Lowell, Mass., 1884

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1884

Location Note

Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Beverages

GUSN

GUSN-190974

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Description

This trade card for Acme Tea Company contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.

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This trade card for Acme Tea Company depicts a woman throwing her arms up and a man that has yoked a plow to three hogs.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
tea
food
trade cards (advertising)

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0104
Other identifier Card no.468

Physical Description

2 trade cards : color illustration : chromolithograph

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.045.02.01.003

Date Notes

Copyright date.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Acme Tea Company (Manufacturer)
J.H. Bufford & Sons (Printer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Other Organizations

J. Buckley (Lowell, Mass.)
J.H. Bufford & Co.

Subjects

African Americans
African Americans in advertising
Beverages
Pigs
Plowing
Black People
Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Beverages

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