Trade card; Allen's Jewel Five Cent Plug; Five Points, New York, United States; undated

Title:

Trade card; Allen's Jewel Five Cent Plug; Five Points, New York, United States; undated

Date:

unknown

Description:

Trade card advertising Allen's Jewel Five Cent [tobacco] Plug. The front of the card has a poem about a Jew who offers an Irish man an Allen's Jewel tobacco plug, with a caricature of the two men below, with the Irish man about to hit the Jew. The card unfolds to reveal the two shaking hands and each holding a box of Allen's Jewel tobacco plugs, as well as an end to the poem with the moral, "If You'd Not Fear an Ugly Mug, Chew Allen's Jewel Five Cent Plug." The back of the card is a full page advertisement for Allen's Jewel Five Cent Plug, with an image of two boxes crossed with the product name of each; Five Points, NY

Format:

Trade card

Identifier:

2006.12.26.06761; {44D982CA-A6F6-41A8-80A3-F11E2888A635}

Language:

English

Subject:

Trade cards (advertising); Advertisements; Tobacco industry; Prejudices

Type:

Trade cards

Corporate Name:

Allen's Jewel Five Cent Plug

Geographic Subject:

United States -- New York -- Five Points; United States -- New York

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Call Number:

Arc.MS.56

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)