Trade Card: Wurkheim's Cloak and Suit House, Oakland, California

This trade card advertises Wurkheim's Cloak and Suit House in Oakland, California. The front of the card (Image 1: https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/0fbb6264-71eb-45c7-92a3-745ba6ebf159%2Faccess/full/!600,600/0/default.jpg) features a depiction of a scene with Black figures picking cotton, and two boys tripping a woman with a rope. The text on the card includes the business' address: 1109 Broadway. The illustration is caricaturish and employs racist imagery. The back of the card (Image 2: https://iiif-images.library.upenn.edu/iiif/2/0ecfb291-db5c-49eb-8366-05f85da6e8da%2Faccess/full/!600,600/0/default.jpg) is blank. [The donor's wife is listed as a donor to a synagogue, which provides additional context regarding the donor's background.]

Associated People/Businesses

• Wurkheim's Cloak and Suit House
• WURKHEIM (Morris)

Geography

• Oakland

Subjects

• Clothing trade
• Jewish merchants
• Advertising cards
• Caricatures and cartoons
• Racism

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Volume 6, Page 16