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Title R.C. Howe, apothecary, Elm Corner, (successor to E.G. Frothingham and late of Emerson & Howe,) a full stock of medicines, fancy goods, cigars, &c., choice teas a specialty, the original 35 c. tea, Haverhill, Mass. [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x10 cm (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist Richard Cranch Howe and depicting a caricature of an Asian woman carrying a parasol walking down a path. Shows an Asian woman, attired in a patterned dress and hat or headdress, holding a flower in her left hand and a parasol in her right hand. She walks down a path and looks at a planter full of flowers that hangs from an arch attached to a decorative column.
Notes Title from item.
Date finferred from active dates of the pharmacist.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
RVCDC
Subject Howe, Richard C., 1831-1907.
Asians -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Flowers.
Parasols.
Orientalism.
Pharmacists -- Massachusetts -- Haverhill.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Massachusetts -- Haverhill.
Racism in popular culture.
Umbrellas.
Women -- Asian.
AAPI.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Howe [P.9828.6160]
Accession number P.9828.6160