Monarch Lightning Sawing Machine, Easy Running! Broadside
From Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 September 1998
From Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 2 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 September 1998
About this Item
Illustrated large folding advertising broadside with wonderful engraved images of the sawing machine in use by Native Americans and "the colored people of the South". The advertising copy boasts, "the Indians were among the first to discover the great labor saving qualities of the . Sawing Machine, and we are shipping hundreds to the Choctaws, Cherokees, and other tribes in the Indian Territory ." The third column, illustrated with a racist image of a black family using the machine, states "The Colored People . are buying the . Sawing Machine by the thousands, and this picture illustrated the genuine surprise of "Sambo and Dinah" while watching its easy Printed both sides in black in a variety of type fonts, with text and illustrations in 3 columns and red borders & rules. 19 1/4 x 25 1/2". Period folds flattened, faint marks at center fold of front not obscuring text, small perforations at top and bottom (outside the border) where the poster was mounted. Seller Inventory # 24433
Bibliographic Details
Title: Monarch Lightning Sawing Machine, Easy ...
Publisher: Chicago
Publication Date: 1884
Condition: Very good overall
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