1877-1885
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Cleaning: Household Soaps and Polishes
GUSN-190958
This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
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This trade card promotes Sapolio kitchen soap manufactured by Enoch Morgan's Sons. A man watches two women polishing utensils. A large fork and knife bookend the image.
racial discrimination
workers
soap (organic material)
kitchens
place knives
place forks
cleaning
steel (alloy)
cookware
laborers
trade cards (advertising)
Project number HNE0100
1 trade card : chromolithograph
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.021.02.04.031
New England (United States) [general region]
Enoch Morgan's Sons (Manufacturer)
trade cards (advertising)
African Americans in advertising
Sapolio kitchen soap (Brand name)
African Americans
Black People
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Domestic workers
Included in the Boston African Americana Project.
Item
Library and Archives: Advertisements: Trade Cards: Cleaning: Household Soaps and Polishes
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