Details
Contributor Donaldson Brothers (Firm), printer.
Title Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms. [graphic].
Publisher Five Points, N.Y. : Donaldson Brothers
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 12 x 8 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Trade card advertising celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a caricature of a Japanese woman. Shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and adorned with kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono with a celluloid collar and cuffs and geta shoes with celluloid on the bottom. She walks with her right hand holding her kimono up and carries a parasol made of celluloid. She walks through grass with pink flowers in the background.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button. To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers.
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Subject Collars.
Cuffs (Clothing)
Ethnic stereotypes.
Japanese.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Neckwear industry -- New York -- New York.
Orientalism.
Parasols.
Racism in popular culture.
Umbrellas.
Women -- Clothing & dress.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Genre Anti-Japanese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Celluloid [P.2025.35.2]
Accession number P.2025.35.2

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