Details
Contributor Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 Mikado.
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 Mikado.
J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Title Compliments of R.B. Porter, druggist, St. Johnsville, N.Y. [graphic] / Bufford.
Publisher [Boston] : Bufford
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11.5 x 7 cm. (4.5 x 2.75 in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist Reuben B. Porter and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono dressed as a character from the opera The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the woman wearing her hair up and decorated with fans and attired in a red and gold kimono. She sits on the branch of a red flower and holds a blue fan in her left hand. A white butterfly flies in the left.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from active dates of advertised business.
Series no. on recto: 686.
Manuscript written on verso: Nora Enlenmarks.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
See related: P.9828.332; P.9828.5299; P.9828.5852-5854.
RVCDC
Subject Porter, Reuben B., 1856-1916.
Fans.
Fans (Accessories)
Flowers.
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Operas & operettas.
Pharmacists -- New York (State) -- Saint Johnsville.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- Saint Johnsville.
Racism in popular culture.
Women.
Yellowface.
AAPI.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Porter [P.9828.6622]
Accession number P.9828.6622