Trade card for Warner's Safe Yeast, Warner's Safe Yeast Co., Rochester, New York, undated

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-247083

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Description

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.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
food
women (female humans)
girls
domestics
servants
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card : color illustration ; 5 1/2 x 4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.045.01.04.036

Image Dimensions

5 1/2 x 4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Purchased from Greg Smart, 2007.

Places

Rochester (Monroe county, New York state)

Record Details

Originator

H.H. Warner & Co. (Publisher)
Mensing & Stecher (Printer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Baking
Yeast
Black People
African American women
African Americans in advertising
Patent medicines
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Domestic workers

Description Level

Item

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