Details
Contributor Raphael Tuck & Sons, printer.
Title Just a little Chinaman laundry work fine, will cookie, washee, ironie if you'll be his valentine [graphic].
Publisher [London] : [Raphael Tuck & Sons]
Date [ca. 1906]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (5.5 x 3.5 in.) (postcard format)
Description Racist caricature of a Chinese man laundry worker holding an iron and an ironing board and bending down towards a rat. In the right, the Chinese man wears a queue hairstyle with a red bow tied at the end of his braid and is attired in a blue tunic with gold trim, black pants, red socks, and green cloth slip-on shoes. He holds an iron in his right hand and an ironing board in his left hand. He bends over and looks down at a rat that runs away. In the left are red hearts and a clothespin. The text is written in pidgin English: Just a little Chinaman laundry work fine, will cookie, washee, ironie if you'll be his valentine.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from medium and content.
Series no. printed on verso: Series IV.
Library Company copy has manuscript message and address written on verso and is postmarked, Blodgett Mills, N.Y., Feb. 12, P.M. 1906; Syracuse Feb. 13, A.M. 1906. Includes one-cent stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin.
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Subject Chinese.
Chinese -- Carictures and cartoons.
Clothespins.
Hearts (Symbols)
Ironing boards.
Irons (Pressing)
Laundry workers.
Men -- Chinese.
Pidgin English.
Racism in popular culture.
Rats.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Racist caricatures.
Valentines -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP Postcards - Genre - Just [P.2024.11]
Accession number P.2024.11