PCT4290567: Reclaim (advertisement) for Dentol toothpaste (French product) in the newspaper La Depeche du Midi during the War of 1914 - 1918 - The illustration is a Senegalese shooter explaining the contrast with a German soldier wearing a pointed helmet. He speaks in “” little negre”””: “” li white skin eat bread KK (poop), more teeth - Me, black skin, white teeth! “” - The image of those called the Negres was very used at the time. The most famous is the Senegalese gunner from Banania (see GU0012 and GU0013- / Bridgeman Images
PCT4290724: Illustration by Rene Vincent (1879-1936) of the book (1906-1907) by Frank-Nohain (Franc Nohain) dedicated to the clowns duo FooIT and Chocolat - Rafael Padilla (1866 or 1868-1917), nicknamed “Chocolate” (black clown) - “” the young negre, who was not afraid to blackening his complexion, committed to earn a living at the Bilbao mines. This comment, which may now seem racist, was intended at the benevolent times - minor, circus, racism, child labor, childhood-, Vincent, Rene (1871-1936) / Bridgeman Images