Details
Creator Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939.
Contributor T. Sinclair & Son, printer.
Title C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. cor. 8th & Race Sts., Phila. [graphic] / A. Rosenthal, del. & litho.
Publisher Philadelphia : Sinclair's 2nd Prize Series
Date 1881
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 8 x 13 cm (3 x 5 in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist C.C. Hughes in the style of trompe l'oeil depicting a landscape with ships and a vignette portrait of a Japanese woman portrayed in caricature. Shows a landscape view with people standing on a path leading to a pagoda on a cliff. In the right, ships sail on the water. In the background are mountains. In the left, shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and decorated with Kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in gold hoop earrings; a yellow, patterned kimono with red trim; and a black obi. A green parrot sits on her left arm. Decorated border surrounds the scene.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes.
Advertising text printed on verso: Alhambra hair restorer. Restores gray hair to its natural color with three or four application, making it soft and beautiful; removes dandruff and itching of the scalp; prevents premature baldness; stops hair from falling out; will not soil the finest linen: an excellent dressing, nicely perfumed. Price, 75 Cts., large bottle. Manufactured by C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. Cor. Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. Hughes’ Corn & Bunion Plasters. Give instant relief and effect a cure. (They are not pads to relieve the pressure.) Each 25 cents per box; 12 corn or 6 bunion in each box. Sent by mail on receipt of price. C.C. Hughes, Druggist, Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William Helfand.
RVCDC
Subject Hughes, Charles C., approximately 1837-1889.
Borders (Ornament areas)
Ethnic stereotypes.
Harbors.
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Mountains.
Orientalism.
Pagodas.
Parrots.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmacists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Racism in popular culture.
Ships.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Women.
Trompe l'oeil prints.
Geographic subject Japan -- Social life and customs.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Printer Hayes, George M., approximately 1853-, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Hughes [P.9828.6166]
Accession number P.9828.6166