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Day's soap does it. [graphic] : Washee, washee, see him rub on his washboard in the tub; see him wash and smile with glee for he's from hard labor free; with Day's soap his work is done when his rivals just begun. / Avil & Co. lith.
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Contributor
Avil Printing Co., printer.
Title
Day's soap does it. [graphic] : Washee, washee, see him rub on his washboard in the tub; see him wash and smile with glee for he's from hard labor free; with Day's soap his work is done when his rivals just begun. / Avil & Co. lith.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Day & Frick
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1887
Date
[1887]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 14 x 11 cm (5.5 x 4 in.)
Notes
Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1887 by Day & Frick.
Racist metamorphic trade card showing a caricaturized Chinese man laundry worker washing a sheet on a wash board in a washtub. Includes a tab that when pulled lifts the washer's arms up and down to reveal the text "Day Soap" on the wash board. The man wears his hair in a queue and is attired in a long-sleeved, blue collared shirt with buttons down the front, blue pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes. He smiles and looks to the right. The tub rests on a table beside a bar of soap, labeled “Day’s Soap.” On the ground behind the table is a basket of laundry. Sheets hang on a drying line. In the background, the wall has Chinese-stylized decorations including a gold wallpaper depicting birds and fish and a purple and gold wall hanging that reads, “Day’s Soap.” Peter Day founded the Day & Frick soap manufactory firm in 1886. He retired as president of the firm in 1917.
Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program.
RVCDC
Biographical / historical note
John D. Avil founded the Avil Printing Company (also known as John D. Avil & Co.) in West Philadelphia and managed it from the early 1860s until his death in 1918.
Subject
Day & Frick.
Chinese.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chinoiserie (Art)
Cleaning establishments -- United States.
Laundries -- United States.
Laundries (Rooms & spaces) -- United States.
Laundry -- United States.
Laundry workers -- United States.
Men -- Chinese.
Pidgin English.
Racism in popular culture.
Soap.
Wash tubs.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Day's [P.2012.62.8]
Accession number
P.2012.62.8
In Collections
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection
Trade Card Collection
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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