Details
Title B. Miller, segars, tobacco, stationery, toys &c., 1822 S. Seventh St., Phila. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 14 cm (2.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Trade card promoting tobacco merchant B. Miller and showing two boys pulling the hair of a Chinese man depicted in racist caricature. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing an exaggeratedly long queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic, yellow pants, and black shoes, is pulled on his back onto a wooden box and grasps the sides with his hands. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white hat with a blue ribbon, a pink-striped shirt, blue pants, and black shoes, holds the man's hair and pulls back with his feet lifted off the ground. The white boy, attired in a yellow hat with an orange ribbon, a white shirt, yellow pants, and black shoes, stands facing left and pulls the man's hair over his shoulder with his feet lifted off the ground. Broadsides pasted on the fence in the background read,"Hoodlumism at discount education" and "Soiety [sic] for converting heathen." A building is visible in the right background.
Notes Title from text stamped on verso.
Date inferred from content.
Purchased 2015.
See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Weymann [P.2015.56.939].
RVCDC
Subject Boys.
Children.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Hate crimes.
Men -- Chinese.
Racism in popular culture.
Violence.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Racist caricatures.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Berman Trade Card Collection - Miller [P.2015.56.591]
Accession number P.2015.56.591

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