Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Morgan & Headly trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : 2 chromolithographs, 1 lithograph ; sheets 15 x 9 cm. (6 x 3.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards promoting jewelers Morgan & Headly in the Mutual Life Building at the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Trade card depicts a large diamond jewel [1975.F.579]. Illustrated trade card depicts a caricaturized Japanese woman and boy playing a horn. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and decorated with kanzashi (decorative hair ornaments) and attired in a floral patterned kimono, stands before a Japanese-style building. She leans her left arm over a wall and looks down at a boy, wearing a shaved head with a small ponytail and attired in a tunic, a belt, pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes, playing a horn next to a bird with its beak open [1975.F.592]. Trade card depicting a Japanese-stylized scene of a crane bending over and cleaning its feathers with its beak. Also includes flowering tree branches [1975.F.593].
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content and history of the advertised business.
One print [1975.F.579] contains vignette printed on verso depicting a hand-held fan superimposed onto a ribbon.
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Morgan & Headly.
Boys -- Japanese.
Cranes (Birds)
Diamonds.
Hair ornaments.
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Jewelers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Kimonos.
Musical instruments.
Women -- Japanese.
Racialization and visual culture.
AAPI.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Morgan [1975.F.579; 1975.F.592 & 593]
Accession number 1975.F.579
1975.F.592
1975.F.593