{"id":4577,"date":"2008-12-20T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2010-07-31T03:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T08:41:50","slug":"vintage-ads-with-black-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/20\/vintage-ads-with-black-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Ads with Black Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben O. brought our attention to this set of vintage ads (from Found in Mom&#8217;s Basement) that all use images of Black male servants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pzrservices.typepad.com\/vintageadvertising\/2008\/02\/vintage-ad-fo-6.html\">This one<\/a> for Cream of Kentucky bourbon was illustrated by Norman Rockwell. I can&#8217;t quite figure out what the expression on the Black servant&#8217;s face is supposed to convey:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cream_of_kentuck_vintage_ad.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4578 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cream_of_kentuck_vintage_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pzrservices.typepad.com\/vintageadvertising\/2007\/09\/vintage-ad-fo-2.html\">Miller Beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/vinatge_ad_for_miller_beer1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4580 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/vinatge_ad_for_miller_beer1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pzrservices.typepad.com\/vintageadvertising\/2008\/06\/vintage-ad-fo-1.html\">Cream of Wheat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/cream_of_wheat_ad.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2211 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/cream_of_wheat_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/fairbanksfairysoap.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Glider shaving cream:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/racist_shaving_ad.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4581 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/racist_shaving_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the text reads, &#8220;Why did Grand-dad so often take the trouble to get water from the rain barrel for his shave?&#8221; For some reason I have a feeling it wasn&#8217;t Grand-dad getting the water.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Ben O.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben O. brought our attention to this set of vintage ads (from Found in Mom&#8217;s Basement) that all use images of Black male servants. This one for Cream of Kentucky bourbon was illustrated by Norman Rockwell. I can&#8217;t quite figure out what the expression on the Black servant&#8217;s face is supposed to convey: Miller Beer: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,29,253,23703,212,285,1760,1757,23705],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-class","tag-history","tag-marketing","tag-alcohol","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26230,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/26230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}