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Title Purgen, Japan’s superiority over other oriental countries is indicated by the enlightenment of its medical profession, which prescribes in habitual constipation the pleasant and certain hydragogue laxative Purgen [graphic] / Lehn & Fink, manufacturing chemist, New York.
Publisher Japan : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1900]
Physical Description 1 print : color woodblock ; sheet 27 x 20 (10.5 x 7.75)
Description Advertisement for Lehn & Fink's patent medicine and depicting a group of Japanese men and women. In the left, shows the man, attired in a wicker Kasa hat, black-striped kimono with a red obi, and geta shoes, playing the samisen as he looks down at two small dogs. A woman, attired in a white hat and red and purple kimono, walks behind him. Next is the woman attired in a gray kimono. Two young men control the strings to a puppet at her feet. In the right, the Japanese man, wearing a chonmage hairstyle and with a sword at his waist, walks carrying a bundle and staff. In the left is the building decorated with red paper lanterns and with a counter holding a plate of food, possibly rice balls. A tree branch of red flowers arches across the top. Five black boxes for stamps are in the top of the print. Library Company copy has four Imperial Japanese Post stamps. Louis Lehn (1838-1915) and Frederick W. Fink (1846-1925) founded Lehn & Fink in New York in 1874.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
See related: Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Series II - Advertisements [P.2010.37.72]; Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Print Collection - Advertisements [P.2012.29.58].
Subject Lehn and Fink.
Dogs.
Flowers.
Kimonos.
Japanese.
Laxatives.
Men -- Japanese.
Paper lanterns -- Japan.
Patent medicines.
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
Puppets.
Shamisen.
Women -- Japanese.
AAPI.
Women.
Genre Advertisements -- 1890-1900.
Wood engravings -- Color -- 1890-1900.
Ephemera -- 1890-1900.
Stamps -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Series II - Advertisements [P.2010.37.71]
Accession number P.2010.37.71