Details
Title With compliments, Israel Zinser, dealer in drugs, books, stationery, paints, oils, glass, brushes, perfumery, violin strings, and fancy articles, Washington, Illinois. [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11.5 x 7.5 cm (4.75 x 3 in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist Israel Zinser and depicting three boys, possibly meant to be Asian, constructing an oversized paper lantern decorated with an image of a flowering branch. In the foreground is a bamboo scaffold on which is a jar full of paintbrushes. In the right, the boy, attired in a green and gold tunic, sits on the scaffold and holds a hammer working on the base of the lantern. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, yellow shirt with red cuffs, and yellow pants, stands on the scaffold and paints. In the top right, the boy, attired in a green shirt and yellow pants, sits on a swing, holds a paintbrush, and paints the upper part of the lantern. The lantern hangs from a flowering branch.
Notes Title from advertising text printed on verso.
Date inferred from content.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
RVCDC
Subject Zinser, Israel, 1844-1901.
Asians -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Boys.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Japonism.
Orientalism.
Painting.
Pharmacists -- Illinois -- Washington.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Illinois -- Washington.
Paper lanterns.
Racism in popular culture.
AAPI.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Z [P.9828.7194]
Accession number P.9828.7194