Details
Contributor Doerner & Gunther, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Celluloid cuffs, collars & bosoms, water & perspiration proof [graphic].
Publisher New York : Doerner & Gunther
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (3.25 x 4.5 in.)
Description Trade card advertising J.H. Richelderfer’s celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese man at the beach watching a white man demonstrate the waterproof qualities of his celluloid cuffs, collar, and bosom or bib. In the center, the white man, wearing a mustache and attired in a red robe, red-and-yellow striped shorts, and white celluloid cuffs, collar, and bosom, stands in the ocean with water dripping down his clothes, showing that they are waterproof. In the right, a Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle, a red tunic, blue pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, carries two sacks of laundry and looks over at the man in the water. In the left, a white man, attired in a straw hat, a white collared shirt, a red vest, yellow striped pants, and red shoes, sits on the sand holding an umbrella and wipes perspiration from his face with a handkerchief. In the background, a white man swims in the water and a boat is visible.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Stamped on recto: J.H. Richelderfer, 1032 Chestnut St., Phila.
Text printed on verso: Waterproof linen, patented. Ladies’ and gent’s cuffs, collars and bosoms, made from celluloid. Waterproof, elastic, durable. These goods are far superior to any Linen Goods yet placed before the public, and in recommending them, we would call attention to some of their remarkable features, which will commend their use to all who study economy, neatness and beauty. 1sr. The interior is fine linen. 2d. The exterior is celluloid. 3d. The unison of above, combines the strength of linen with the waterproof qualities of celluloid, 4th. The expense of washing is saved. If the goods are soiled, simply cleanse with soap and water. 5th. The goods never wilt or fray on edges and are perspiration proof. The best preparation to effectually cleanse them is celluline. For sale by all gent’s furnishing and fancy goods houses throughout the country.
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Subject Richelderfer, Josiah H.
Beaches.
Chinese.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Collars.
Cuffs (Clothing)
Laundry.
Laundry workers.
Men -- Chinese.
Men -- Clothing & dress.
Neckwear industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Perspiration.
Racism in popular culture.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Richelderfer [1975.F.745]
Accession number 1975.F.745