[Trade card advertising Sanford's Ginger showing Black girl seated on watermelon and holding bottle of ginger and baby in watermelon crib] – Vintage Print
![[Trade card advertising Sanford's Ginger showing Black girl seated on watermelon and holding bottle of ginger and baby in watermelon crib], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0fc03d42b8b2-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [Trade card advertising Sanford's Ginger showing Black girl seated on watermelon and holding bottle of ginger and baby in watermelon crib], an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Trade card advertising Sanford's Ginger showing Black girl seated on watermelon and holding bottle of ginger and baby in watermelon crib]
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A Black girl sits on a watermelon with a bottle of Sanford's Ginger in hand, while a baby rests in a watermelon-shaped crib, all in this color lithograph trade card. The Boston firm Forbes Co. printed it, and the caption card gives no date. Trade cards like this were handed out or inserted in packages to promote consumer goods in the late 19th century, and many drew on racist caricature to sell products. The watermelon, a stock stereotype of the period, is the key element to read here, because the card ties a household product to demeaning imagery of Black Americans.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Notes | Color lithograph by Forbes Co., Boston. Samuel Rosenberg Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 941 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171094 |
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