Trade Cards: Mordecai & Smith Clothing House, Baltimore, Maryland

This record contains three of six trade cards for the Mordecai & Smith Clothing House in Baltimore, Maryland. The cards depict a comical man in a Pilgrim hat within scenes that contain racist imagery. The back of the cards is blank. Research indicates a deed of trust for M. (Moses) C. (Cohen) Mordecai, late of Charleston, and Judson H. Smith, who conducted business under the name Mordecai & Smith Clothing House at 178 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore. [M. C. Mordecai (1804-1888) was a prominent Charleston Confederate. Numerous court records exist involving his son, J. Radolph Mordecai, as executor of his will, addressing matters in Baltimore.]

Associated People/Businesses

• Mordecai & Smith

Geography

• Baltimore

Subjects

• Clothing trade
• Jewish merchants
• Advertising cards
• Racism

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 14, Folder 13