... would attract and lure American housewives to the shopping aisles. Rutt and Underwood began the quest for a trademark "they were searching for Aunt Jemima. Chris Rutt attended a local vaudeville house in the autumn of 1889. On the bill was a pair of black-face comedians, Baker & Farrell, a team of white entertainers blackened with brunt cork who ridiculed Negroes while portraying plantation ... Jemima's "much like a mirror that has been chopped up into several pieces with each square picturing the same image. The foreground of the picture is dominated by a gigantic mammy doll holding a ...

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