Representing a sewing company in Davenport, Iowa, this trading card presents many black stereotypes of the time, including an Aunt Jemima figure and Sambo figure, and works to reinforce the popular perception of black women in roles of compliant domesticity and servitude, and black men as being lesser or foolish individuals, as supported by the depiction of the goat chewing the black man’s garment. By relegating minorities to offensive portrayals of otherness, as Dr. Metrick-Chen explores in her article “The Chinese of the American Imagination,” America, at the time, could seek to define “Americanness” through the definition of “its opposing counterpart: the un-American”(125).