Details
Contributor Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 Mikado.
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 Mikado.
Title W.F. Potteiger, druggist, N.W. corner Fourth and Spruce Streets, Reading, PA. [graphic].
Publisher [Reading,Pa] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1886]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet x cm ( x in.)
Description Trade card promoting pharmacist William F. Potteiger and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono, probably an actress in 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 blue kimono with gold cranes, peach-colored obi, and purple skirt. She holds a peach-colored fan in her right hand and turns her head to the right with her left hand up. She stands on a fur rug.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
RVCDC
Subject Potteiger, William F., 1853-1931.
Actresses.
Cranes (Birds)
Fans.
Fans (Accessories)
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Operas & operettas.
Pharmacists -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Racism in popular culture.
Yellowface.
Women.
AAPI.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Potteiger [P.9828.6624]
Accession number P.9828.6624