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[ADVERTISING]. Red Cross Cotton, From Start to Finish. New Brunswick, NJ: Johnson & Johnson, 1894. Petre, Schmidt, & Bergmann, lithographers, New York.
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$450
Live Auction
American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Location
Cincinnati
Description
[ADVERTISING]. Red Cross Cotton, From Start to Finish. New Brunswick, NJ: Johnson & Johnson, 1894. Petre, Schmidt, & Bergmann, lithographers, New York.
30 x 21 in. chromolithograph (including margins), printed directly on board, framed, 33 x 24 in. (soiling throughout, scattered surface abrasions, puncture near top margin). An advertisement for Johnson and Johnson's Red Cross Cotton, depicting enslaved African Americans working in a cotton field.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition
Freeman's I Hindman strives to describe historic materials in a manner that is respectful to all communities, providing descriptive contexts for objects where possible. The nature of historical ephemera is such that some material may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices at Freeman's I Hindman.