GUSN-243351
This trade card contains harmful imagery and language employing racist stereotypes.
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The image is of a group of men dancing around a box of Lavine Soap in a laundry.
advertising
business (commercial function)
soap (organic material)
laundries (businesses)
washing (cleaning)
racial discrimination
trade cards (advertising)
1 trade card ; 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.021.02.03.003
2 1/2 x 4 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of William Sumner Appleton, February 28, 1927.
Hartford (Hartford county, Connecticut)
trade cards (advertising)
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Chinese
Laundry
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