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China. E.F. Keeler, druggist, Groton, Ct. [graphic].
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Title
China. E.F. Keeler, druggist, Groton, Ct. [graphic].
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet x cm ( x in.)
Description
Trade card promoting druggist E.F. Keeler and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese woman, symbolizing China, attired in a dress of the Imperial yellow dragon flag. Shows a Chinese woman, wearing her hair in a long braid and attired in a conical hat, a yellow dress with a green dragon on the front, yellow gloves, and white dress shoes. She stands on her toes with her hands up.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject
Keeler, E.F.
Asian conical hats.
Clothing & dress -- China.
Dragons.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Flags -- Chinese.
Orientalism.
Pharmacists -- Connecticut -- Groton.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Connecticut -- Groton.
Racism in popular culture.
Women -- Chinese.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Women.
Geographic subject
China -- Symbolic representation.
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 - Keeler [P.9828.6242]
Accession number
P.9828.6242
In Collections
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection
Trade Card Collection
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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