Details
Title A joyous Christmas and a happy New Year [graphic] : Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co., Stationers & engravers, 815 Arch St. Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Date [1879]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.75 in.)
Description Trade card promoting engraver and stationer Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co. and depicting racist caricatures of a Chinese woman and two Chinese men. In the right, a Chinese woman, wearing her hair up with decorative pins and a flower and attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress, sits in a red chair and holds a bouquet of pink flowers. In the center, the Chinese man, wearing a beard and a queue hairstyle and attired in a purple tunic and green pants, stands with his arms folded. In the left, the Chinese man, wearing a goatee and queue hairstyle and attired in a red tunic, pink-and-white striped pants, and black cloth slip-on shoes, stands in front of the woman with his hands out. Also in the scene are a small dog and a red dragon.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from calendar printed on verso.
Text printed on verso: "Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co., Stationers & engravers, 815 Arch St., Philadelphia" with a monthly calendar for 1880.
RVCDC.
Subject Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co.
Chinese.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chinoiserie (Art)
Dogs.
Dragons.
Engravers.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Men -- Chinese.
Women -- Chinese.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Women.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist works.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Berman Trade Card Collection - Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co. [P.2015.56.299]
Accession number P.2015.56.299