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Start Over Collection Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/2005

Advertising Cards, 1880/1890 Box 3, Folder 1, Object 2

Series of advertising cards that promote the Chinese immigrant population in a negative way. Advertisers include Celluloid Corset Clasps, Kendall Manufacturing Company Soaps and Soapine, Henderson's Goods, and Gent's Furnishings and Fancy Goods Houses. The images depict Chinese men with long hair embarking on ships and men with over exaggerated eye features. The images often have little to do with the product being advertised.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/2005
  3. Series 3: Asian Americans, 1870/1946
  4. Trading Cards, 1870/1890

African American Postcards, 1910/1930 Box 1, Folder 33

20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans. Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans. The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/2005
  3. Series 1: African Americans, 1869/2002

Aims of Red Pro-Negro Plot, 1928 Box 1, Folder 28, Object 1

This pamphlet entitled "Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South & USA." argues that communist are trying to stir up trouble between white and black races, promoting racial mixing, and eventually want to control America. Pamphlet includes a map of the south, which it states Communist want to turn into a Negro Communist Soviet.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, 1778/2005
  3. Series 1: African Americans, 1869/2002
  4. The Communist Stance on Civil Rights, 1947/1975

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