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1883
Vertical file 4: OVR 101-110
GUSN-199129
This trade card employs racist stereotypes.
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This advertisement features a man, "Dr. Bolus", and two young patients. According to the printed legend on the back, this chromolithograph could be ordered from J.C. Ayer as a set of album cards.
medicine
African American
advertising
chromolithographs
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number 103OVR
1 chromolithograph
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1986
GC002.02.103
Gift
9.5 x 15.5 (HxW)(inches)
Jewett Home
Ayer, J. C. (James Cook), 1819-1878 (Printer)
chromolithographs
prints (visual works)
Advertisement
African Americans in advertising
Children
Medicine
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Fragile, tears up left and right. Also, discolored.
Item
Vertical file 4: OVR 101-110
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