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Title Tuesday, August 15, 1905. The Ladies clothing emporium. She and I[?] take an umbrella to [the?] and get our first look at the heathen Chinee. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : Keystone Telephone Company
Date [ca. 1905]
Physical Description 1 print : letterpress ; manuscript; photomechanical ; sheet 10 x 15 cm (4 x 6 in)
Description Manuscript note with images from magazines of four women and a Chinese man pasted on the back of a Keystone Telephone Company order form. Handwritten note, presumably by a white woman, describes a trip to a women's clothing store and an encounter seeing a Chinese man. It reads, "Tuesday, August 15, 1905. The Ladies clothing emporium. She and I[?] take an umbrella to [the?] and get our first look at the heathen Chinee." Four fashion magazine prints depicting women attired in dresses have been cut out and pasted on each corner of the card. In the bottom center is a photomechanical print of a Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a tunic, robe, a string of beads, and cloth slip-on shoes, standing with his hands at his waist and looking down. An arrow points from the word "Chinee" to the image. Robert H. Foerderer (1860-1903) founded the Keystone Telephone Company in 1900. Bell bought Keystone in 1944.
Notes Title and date from manuscript written on verso.
Text printed on recto: Keystone Telephone Company, Equip. Dept., Detail Order Record. Detail order no.; File no.; Ordered; Supply order no.; Location and nature of work; [C]ompleted; Elapsed time; [?]st material; Cost labor; [T]otal cost; Acct. chgble; [?]reman; Men; Remarks.
Library Company copy is torn on the left side.
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Subject Keystone Telephone Company.
Chinese.
Clothing stores.
Fashion.
Men -- Chinese.
Race relations.
Racism.
Women.
Queue (Hairstyle)
Racialization and visual culture.
AAPI.
Women.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Forms (Documents) -- 1900-1910.
Letterpress works -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| ephemera - forms/documents [P.2025.42]
Accession number P.2025.42

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