Details
Title Geo. F. Woods, druggist and apothecary, dealer in fancy goods, Bellows Falls, Ct. [graphic] : Soda and mineral waters on draught and in package.
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints : lithographs printed on pink card ; sheet 6.5 x 10 cm. (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Trade cards promoting druggist George F. Woods and depicting an Asian man looking at a statue of an Asian woman in a park. Shows an Asian man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a conical hat, patterned tunic and matching pants, and shoes. He stands behind a fence and looks at a statue of a barefooted woman, wearing a headpiece and attired in a sarong with her breasts exposed, on a pedestal. She holds a fan with a long handle in her right hand and gestures with her left hand. Also visible are a palm tree, potted plant, and a path.
Notes 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.9828.7151.
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Subject Woods, George F., d. 1888.
Asian conical hats.
Asians -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Fans.
Fans (Accessories)
Men -- Asian.
Orientalism.
Pharmacists -- Vermont -- Bellows Falls.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Vermont -- Bellows Falls.
Racism in popular culture.
Sarongs.
Sculpture.
Women -- Asian.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Wood [P.9828.7149-7150]
Accession number P.9828.7149
P.9828.7150