American, issued by the American Corn Millers Federation, signed Chambers
Chicago, Illinois
1940
Color lithograph on paper, framed
33.5 x 22.75 inches framed (85 x 58 cm)
Private collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts
The poster shows a barefoot Black child in a straw hat and blue overalls seated on a heaped pile of white corn ears against a blue sky, holding a husked ear upright in both hands. The figure is painted in the caricatured idiom of American advertising of the period, signed Chambers at the lower left, with the campaign lettering carried on the sheet. The colors are strong and the sheet is presented framed.
The poster was issued by the American Corn Millers Federation of Chicago in 1940 as part of its campaign promoting white corn to millers and growers. Trade-association food advertising of this era was distributed to mills, feed stores, and granges rather than sold, and surviving examples come from that commercial circulation. Imagery of this kind is collected today as a document of how Black figures were used in twentieth-century American advertising.
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American, issued by the American Corn Millers Federation, signed Chambers
Chicago, Illinois
1940
Color lithograph on paper, framed
33.5 x 22.75 inches framed (85 x 58 cm)
Private collection, New Bedford, Massachusetts
The poster shows a barefoot Black child in a straw hat and blue overalls seated on a heaped pile of white corn ears against a blue sky, holding a husked ear upright in both hands. The figure is painted in the caricatured idiom of American advertising of the period, signed Chambers at the lower left, with the campaign lettering carried on the sheet. The colors are strong and the sheet is presented framed.
The poster was issued by the American Corn Millers Federation of Chicago in 1940 as part of its campaign promoting white corn to millers and growers. Trade-association food advertising of this era was distributed to mills, feed stores, and granges rather than sold, and surviving examples come from that commercial circulation. Imagery of this kind is collected today as a document of how Black figures were used in twentieth-century American advertising.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
