Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Set of Three Soapine Trade Cards

Providence, RI, Kendall Mugacturing Co. 1882. Four trade cards, n. d. (early 1880s); 3 x 4 1/4; chromolithographed illustrations on a gold background, with minor wear; text in black to verso; all three with some glue residue to verso from previously being in a scrapbook; one of the cards with clipped lower right corner; overall in good to very good condition. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) - author, feminist, social reformer, artist, and great-niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe - began her career as a Soapine artist in 1880, when her cousin Robert Brown, a bookkeeper at the Kendall Manufacturing Company asked her to create advertising designs for the soap cards. The current set included: "A Train Approaching a Daydreaming Man, Standing in the Middle of the Trackes," "A Sailor on the Top of a Ship's Mast, Waving a Soapine Flag," and "A Lady under a Clothesline, with the Hanging Clothes Spelling Soapine." (Cheadle; et al, D. (2000). Soapine Did It! Miller Press; Mac Donnell, K. (2001). Trade Cards by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly, (Fall 2001), 18–25). Good .

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