Trade card for Welcome Soap, Curtis Davis & Co., Boston, Mass., 1877

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1877

GUSN

GUSN-245607

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Description

This trade card contains harmful imagery of sexual assault of a domestic worker.

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The card is copyrighted 1877 by J.H. Buffords Sons.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
cosmetics
soap (organic material)
servants
women (female humans)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

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

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.028.03.02.010

Image Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of William Sumner Appleton, February 28, 1927.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

J.H. Bufford’s Sons Lith. (Printer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Sexual harassment
Domestic workers

Description Level

Item

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