Details
Contributor Branch House, distributor.
Title Compliments of John Wanamaker & Co. Clothiers, Chestnut below Ninth. [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 dry goods merchant and clothier John Wanamaker & Co. and depicting a caricaturized Japanese boy playing a stringed instrument to a small dog. In the center, the boy, attired in a multi-colored, patterned kimono, geta shoes, and a straw conical hat, plays a stringed instument. In the left, a small black-and-white dog stands on his hind legs.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised.
Stamped on recto: Branch House, No. 10 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh.
Purchased 2015.
Biographical / historical note John Wanamaker and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown formed Wanamaker & Brown and opened the store Oak Hall at Sixth and Market Streets in 1861. Brown died in 1868. In 1869, the firm became John Wanamaker & Co., and he opened a store at Eighth and Chestnut Streets. John Wanamaker's Grand Depot at Thirteenth and Market Streets, opened in 1876 to cater to Centennial Exhibition crowds.
Subject John Wanamaker & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Asian conical hats.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Japanese.
Dogs.
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Orientalism.
Stringed instruments.
Racialization and visual culture.
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Berman Trade Card Collection - John Wanamaker & Co. [P.2015.56.463]
Accession number P.2015.56.463