Business Card - The Manhattan Days Work Exchange, Operated by the Industrial Department Christadelphian Evangelical Association

New York City. A 2 1/2" x 4" business card for Days Work -- of all Kinds, by Trained Workers - Laundresses, Cleaners, Seamstresses, Cooks Etc. Reverse is blank. Surface wear. According to the Christadelphia Advocate the exchange was part of a get rich quick scheme. In 1906, the Christadelphia Advocate wrote of it's founder "This formidable title was coined by a Bro. Nelson, a colored man, to denominate a movement he proposed to inaugurate among those of his own race. This brother ran well for a while, seeming to be earnest, and he is quite above the average intelligence for his race." In 1906, the Christadelphia Advocate wrote of it's founder "This formidable title was coined by a Bro. Nelson, a colored man, to denominate a movement he proposed to inaugurate among those of his own race. This brother ran well for a while, seeming to be earnest, and he is quite above the average intelligence for his race.