Details
Contributor J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer.
Title L.C. Smith, druggist, (successor to A.W. Rice), Rockville, Conn. Drugs, medicines, toilet requisites, etc., etc. prescriptions compounded day or night. Prices the lowest. Goods strictly pure. [graphic] / Bufford, Boston
Publisher Boston : Bufford
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet x cm ( x in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist Louis C. Smith and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men being attacked by dogs. In the left foreground, shows a large dog chained to a doghouse. The Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle, a blue tunic and pants, and white, slip-on shoes, looks at the dog in fear. In the right, a Chinese man runs away with his queue flying behind him. In the background, a Chinese man, his back to the viewer, screams and raises both arms up as a white dog bites his bottom. Text written in pidgin English below the image: What d’yer soy? Ha! Ha! John Chinaman he eatie doggie.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyrighted, Bufford, Boston.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
RVCDC
Subject Smith, Louis C., 1857-
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Dogs.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Men -- Chinese.
Pharmacists -- Connecticut -- Rockville.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Connecticut -- Rockville.
Pidgin English.
Racism in popular culture.
Violence.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Smith [P.9828.6842]
Accession number P.9828.6842