Advertising trade card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description
Advertising trade card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the largest importers and retailers in the world, pioneers in the business, and the only importers dealing direct with consumers.
The front of this trade card, with its derogatory and cariactured depiction of race, shows an African American family that stops to read a billboard advertising the business. "Whoa! Stephen till I read dis yer sign."
The reverse contains the address of the home office, locations of stores throughout the United States, and warnings about the "vile mixtures" of competitors.
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Credit
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Other Numbers
MG-180
Other Number
MG-180, Series 1, Folder 12, Insert 4, Item 1
Classification
MG0180
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Oricinally cataloged by JM. Added to database 6 December 2023.
Students at Calumet School, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Taken September 20, 1924. First row: Earnest Swank, William Swank, Eugene Lehman, Ralph Harman, Jack Brinker, Sherman Reagon, John Puskar. Second row: William Criss, James Barr, Raymond Finley, Tom Hagerty, Walter Godzinsky, Bernard McCaffrey, Stanley Dume, Frank Franes, Ryamond Shefko, Peter Adams, George Betters. Third row: Mildred myers, Lillian Swank, Isabel Burkosky, Lucinda Swank, Leon Keitz, Sara Betters, Helen Lesko, Virginia Albright, Edith Worry, Nora Reagon, Mary Staschak ("Little Mary Canary"). Fourth row: Margaret Kaslosky, Helen Bunyan, Dorothy Little, Bertha Little, Lizzie Golscak, Virginia Brown, Stella Dublinsky, Florence Hagerty, Mary Adams, Clara Godzinsky, Martha Heley, Betty Byers.
This scrapbook consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other ephemera glued to pages of a 6.5 x 8.25 inch composition notebook with lined pages. Not all pages are used. Cover is grey and is labeled "Roberts & Meck's Seaboard Composition Book, 36 Leaves Writing Paper, Roberts & Meck, Harrisburg, Pa."
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
