About this image...

Image Title: The Great Scrub Race, 1870

Date: 1870, c1870.

Summary: Print with two images showing five women of various ethnic stereotypes engaged in a competition using different brands of mops; the woman using the "Eureka" mop outlasting the others. In the top image, one woman says, "No use, she's got a Eureka"; and adds in the bottom image, "I told you so!"

Subjects: Advertising--1870
Contests--1870
Mops & mopsticks--1870
Women--Domestic life--1870

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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