Image of three copies on one sheet of an advertisement for Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish showing nine African-American children crowd around their Uncle Obadiah who is seated near a stove and holding a package of stove polish; description of product in pidgin English and image of a package of stove polish on verso. "What Uncle Obadiah says about Dixon's Stove Polish."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyrighted 1887."--text, bottom right margin. "Now chillen, what yer needs in dese times is a practical eddycashun. When I was young..."--text, center of image, verso. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--text, bottom left margin, verso.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 40.48 x 15.88 cm (15 15/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Advertising--Cleaning compounds African Americans--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Families--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works Stoves--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Household Large Size Cleaning Products The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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