A collection of 33 Anthropomorphic Fruit & Vegetable People
Various, 1880s. This collection of 36 anthropomorphic cards can be truly for fun or used in the study of advertising techniques or social or visual culture. They include:
Cabbage - 1 seductive cabbage lady; 2 Gourd ladies - on promotes Hawley's Reliable Seed, the other Buffalo Honest Fertilizers; 5 Potatoes - 1 playing violin in a tree, 2 spud bodies with human heads, 1 potato body promoting Kangaroo Komplete Kompound (KKK) and 2 potato gents promoting shirts, cuffs and collars, a cucumber man and a celery woman both promoting Rice's Seeds; a carrot gent with monocle and top hat for Buffalo Honest Fertilizers; a turnip couple; 2 rutabaga fellows promoting McCullough's Seeds and Larkin's "Boraxine"; 1 Mikado or Turner Hybrid Tomato; 1 plum head for Hayes, Murray & Co. (children's shoes); 1 onion man, Holden & Robinson; 2 corn people, 2 with Indigenous themes promoting fertilizers, Rice's Seeds and a Minnesota land management company selling "fertile' land; 1 "Pressed Grapes" a snuggling man and women both with interesting hats for L. Krauss Hatter; 2 beets - one as a parrot E. Whitman, Sons & Co and McCullough's Seeds; 1 watermelon man for Parker & Woods seeds; 1 pea pod couple for McCullough's Seeds; 1 peach head school girl for Schermerhorn Hatter and Furrier; 1 elegant couple of cherry heads for W. E. Tannatt, Tidy Draper, Dolls, &c.; 1 rutabaga man for Parker & Wood Seeds; 3 wheat - a wheat sheaf woman, a wheat sheaf couple and a "S'wheat Girl" in a wheat skirt harvesting wheat for Acme Fertilizer, Williams, Clark and Co. Fertilizer and Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machine; and finally 5 flower women cards each skirt a different flower E.M. Mills Dealer in Furniture, McCullough's Seeds and John B. Varick Co. Seeds
Each measures approximately 5" by 3" Few condition issues. Overall fine.
Price: $1,500.00
Item #25011010