Details
Title Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11 x 8 cm (4.25 x 2.75 in.)
Description Trade card promoting dry goods merchant Sharpless & Sons and depicting a Chinese boy sitting on an oversized fan. Shows the boy, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue robe with red trim and a green sash around the waist, green stockings, and slip-on shoes, sitting with his back to the viewer on a large fan. The gold hand fan is decorated with a bird and flowers. Chinese characters are written in the left. Sharpless & Sons were importers, jobbers, and retailers of dry goods that operated from 801, 803, 805, & 807 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Purchased 2015.
RVCDC
Subject Sharpless & Sons.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chinese characters.
Chinoiserie (Art)
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Fans.
Fans (Accessories)
Men -- Chinese.
Racism in popular culture.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Anti-Chinese works.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Berman Trade Card Collection - Sharpless [P.2015.56.774]
Accession number P.2015.56.774