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Title: Mason's challenge blacking
Creator: National Bureau of Engraving (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an advertisement for Mason's Challenge blacking manufactured by James S. Mason & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; African-American man shining boots with blacking and a young boy points and laughs at a dog startled by its own reflection in a well-shined boot; canister of blacking in foreground.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; National Bureau of Engraving operated from approximately 1877-1909. "National Bureau of Engraving, Phila."--text, bottom center margin. "Philadelphia, United States of America."--text, bottom center margin. "Jas. S. Mason & Co."--text on canister, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 35.24 x 23.81 cm (13 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_HHD_001898
409555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4785
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Cleaning compounds
African Americans--Pictorial works
Boys--Pictorial works
Dogs--Pictorial works
Footwear--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Household
Small Size
Cleaning Products
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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