[ADVERTISING] -- [MEDICINE]. A group of 3 items highlighted by Pitcher's Livura advertisement featuring African American subjects.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $536
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[ADVERTISING] -- [MEDICINE]. A group of 3 items highlighted by Pitcher's Livura advertisement featuring African American subjects.
"Pitcher's Livura Do Cure fo suah." 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (visible), 21 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (framed). Image appears to be on metal. Circular holes along top edgeline for mounting (small losses to color, several tears, unexamined outside frame).
The Livura Manufacturing Company was a Newark, New Jersey-based manufacturer of "proprietary medicines" including "Pitcher's Livura." In 1893, the company expanded its operations to Nashville, Tennessee, which is the city noted on the product crates in the advertisement. An 1894 advertisement for "Pitcher's Livura" which appeared in The American, a newspaper published in Elllsworth, Maine, indicated that the elixir "stimulates digestive action...Keeps poison out of the blood and heals all local humors and eruptions." As with much advertising from the mid-19th century and into the 20th-century, the African Americans featured in the ad reflect stereotypes and caricatures of African Americans and their culture.
[With:] A group of 2 cabinet cards depicting African American children. Chicago, IL: John McGreer, 1881.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition Report
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