Visual Materials

W. Baker & Co. ... American and vanilla chocolates prepared cocoa, broma and homeopathic cocoa

Description: Image of an advertisement for cocoa and chocolate manufacturers Walter Baker & Company of Boston, Massachusetts; cacao plantation laborer in native dress at left; frontier hunter and dog with covered wagon at right; bald eagle with Union shield, "Established 1780" banner, and American flags at top center; lower vignettes show the W. Baker & Co. cocoa mill building in Dorchester, Massachusetts, shipments being transported by train, and boxes being loaded from ship docks onto horse-drawn carts.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1861
Call number: priJLC_FOOD_001980
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