From the newspapers in the 1838 Names Database

Business Ads

Advertisements placed by Black business owners, teachers and institutions, cut from the pages of Freedom’s Journal (1827–1828) and the Christian Recorder (1854–1863). Undertakers, dentists, coal dealers, bakers, clothiers, boarding houses, music teachers. Addresses appear as printed in the ad, in the old street numbering. Click an ad to read it larger; click a name to open that person in the database.

Work in progress. More ads are added as we read more issues. This page shows Philadelphia businesses only. Ads from other cities stay in the database.

Images are cropped from the newspaper page scans in the database: Freedom’s Journal courtesy the Center for Research Libraries, the Christian Recorder courtesy the Internet Archive. Each card links to its full page. For a sharper image of a Christian Recorder page, follow the Internet Archive link on the card. © 1838 Black Metropolis, Inc., CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.