GUSN-247083
This trade card contains harmful imagery and language including racist and stereotypical caricatures.
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The image promotes the health benefits of Warner's Safe Yeast.
advertising
business (commercial function)
food
women (female humans)
girls
domestics
servants
trade cards (advertising)
1 trade card : color illustration ; 5 1/2 x 4 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.045.01.04.036
5 1/2 x 4 (HxW)(inches)
Purchased from Greg Smart, 2007.
Rochester (Monroe county, New York state)
H.H. Warner & Co. (Publisher)
Mensing & Stecher (Printer)
trade cards (advertising)
Baking
Yeast
Black People
African American women
African Americans in advertising
Patent medicines
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Domestic workers
Item
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