| 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. |
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Series no. printed on verso: Series IV. |
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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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RVCDC |
| Subject |
Chinese. |
|
Chinese -- Carictures and cartoons. |
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Clothespins. |
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Hearts (Symbols) |
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Ironing boards. |
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Irons (Pressing) |
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Laundry workers. |
|
Men -- Chinese. |
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Pidgin English. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Rats. |
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Queue (Hairstyle) |
|
AAPI. |
| Genre |
Anti-Chinese works. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910. |
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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 |
