Trade Card for Glenwood & Elmwood Ranges & Parlor Stoves, Weir Stove Co., 1886-1893
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Late-nineteenth-century manufacturers used trade cards to promote and sell products. These colorful advertisements also reflected the racial prejudices of the time. Card illustrators typically depicted African Americans with enlarged or distorted features, speaking with stereotypical language and often involved in some comical mishap. These images dehumanized blacks and affirmed the discriminatory biases many white Americans -- consumers of these trade cards -- held.
Late-nineteenth-century manufacturers used trade cards to promote and sell products. These colorful advertisements also reflected the racial prejudices of the time. Card illustrators typically depicted African Americans with enlarged or distorted features, speaking with stereotypical language and often involved in some comical mishap. These images dehumanized blacks and affirmed the discriminatory biases many white Americans -- consumers of these trade cards -- held.
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1886-1893
Subject Date
1886-1893
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Massachusetts, Taunton
United States, New York, New York
Creator Notes
Product manufactured by Weir Stove Company, Taunton, Massachusetts and retailed by Schunk & Hillenkamp, Toledo, Ohio. Card lithography by Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, New York, New York.
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
90.0.281.327
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Ink
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Lithography
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.25 in
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