Image of an advertisement for cocoa and chocolate manufacturers Walter Baker & Company of Boston, Massachusetts; cacao plantation laborer in native dress at left; frontier hunter and dog with covered wagon at right; bald eagle with Union shield, "Established 1780" banner, and American flags at top center; lower vignettes show the W. Baker & Co. cocoa mill building in Dorchester, Massachusetts, shipments being transported by train, and boxes being loaded from ship docks onto horse-drawn carts. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Julius Mayer had his own firm from 1862-1886. "J. Mayer & Co. Lith. 4 State St. Boston."--text, bottom left margin. "For sale here."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 45.88 x 55.88 cm (18 1/16 x 22 in.)
Advertising--Spice trade Agricultural laborers--Pictorial works Cocoa Eagles--Pictorial works Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Flags--Pictorial works Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Mills and mill-work--Pictorial works Walter Baker & Company Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Place
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Food Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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