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Banner of the London Bakers’ Union
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This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Art, Class, Profession, Activism, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts
Banner with four arms pointed toward a crest in the center featuring a loaf of bread and English text, framed by Yiddish text and sheaves of wheat.
The Coat of Arms of Lopez and Suaço
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In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso resided in The Hague during the…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1676

Subjects:

Class, Jewish identity, Profession, Family, Economic life

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of coat of arms of two lions and ten leaves on the right and two dog-like animals on left.
Portrait of Jacob Ries
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Jacob Ries (1660–1751) of Prague first worked as a badchan (jester) for weddings. In 1710, he became court jester in Vienna under Charles VI. The artist of this portrait of Ries is not known. It…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1710

Subjects:

Portrait, Class, Monarchy, Profession, Humor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of a man of short stature with long wavy hair and a hat, holding a cane in right hand with left hand on hip, with figures in background and Hebrew and German writing above and below picture.