Trade Card
c. 1900
19th Century
4 1/2 in. x 2 3/4 in.
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Document
Medium and Support:
paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mr. Samuel Thorne
Accession Number:
1973.8.6
An advertising trade card for William Spargo. The picture is called "The Coontown Hunt." It is a comic scene of black men on a fox hunt. Trade cards were popular collector's items for children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.