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Contributor Choynski, I. N. (Isadore Nathan), publisher.
Title The tables turned [graphic] : You sabe him! Kealney must go!
Publisher [San Francisco] : Publ. by I.N. Choynski, antiquarian
Date [ca. 1877]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Description Political cartoon depicting racist caricatures of Chinese workers heckling Workingmen's Party of California leader Denis Kearney, who is in prison. In the right, shows Kearney, attired in a black-and-white-striped prison uniform with a ball and chain on his ankle, standing and grasping the bars of his cell, which is labeled, “House of Correction, 181.” In the left, a group of Chinese men workers, wearing queue hairstyles and attired in caps and hats, tunics, pants, and cloth slip-on shoes, sit and stand amongst baskets, including two filled with fish. They hold out to Kearney products associated with their employment, including a laundry worker carrying a washboard and offering socks with holes; a fishmonger holding crabs and a fish labeled, “Black Friday,” on a stick; and a man with a cigar in his mouth holding out a bundle of cigars. They mock him in pidgin English, “you sabe him? Kealney must go!” in reference to Kearney’s slogan that he ended every speech with: “The Chinese must go.” In the top left pinned to the wall is a depiction of a donkey and a cart, possibly alluding to Kearney’s draying business. Denis Kearney (1847-1907) was an Irish immigrant who lead the Workingmen’s Party of California on a platform of anti-Chinese hate, blaming the Chinese immigrants for low wages and job scarcity. He was imprisoned in 1877 for inciting a riot.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed on recto: Copyright secured.
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Subject Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Workingmen's Party of California -- Pictorial works.
Chinese.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cigars.
Crabs.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Emigration and immigration.
Fish.
Immigrants.
Labor movement -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works.
Laundry workers.
Men -- Chinese.
Pidgin English.
Prisoners -- California -- San Francisco.
Prisons -- California -- San Francisco.
Race relations.
Racism in popular culture.
Washboards.
Xenophobia.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Geographic subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Political cartoons -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1877 - Tables [P.2025.44]
Accession number P.2025.44