Zululand - Singer Manufacturing Co. Trade Card, 1892 SP23

Vintage chromolithograph trade card from the Singer Manufacturing Co. world costume series, "Zululand," copyright 1892.

Scene Details:

• Group of six Zulu figures in an outdoor garden setting
• Man in red military-style jacket, cap, and blue trousers holding a cane, standing left
• Woman in pink dress seated at a Singer treadle sewing machine at centre
• Three additional figures standing behind, in colourful traditional and Western dress
• Young figure seated on the ground right in a dark red wrap
• Lush green foliage and wooden fence in background
• Caption printed on front: "ZULULAND" and "OVER"
• Copyright notice: "Copyright 1892, by The Singer Manufacturing Co."
• Artist: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., New York (attributed)

Back text: Description of Zululand as a fertile, well-watered country of South Africa (Kaffraria region). Notes on the Zulu/Bantu people and language. Singer agents at Cape Town, the Transvaal, and the Orange Free State.

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