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Title Boston boot and shoe and gents’ furnishing house, also, a fine line of hats, caps, trunks, valises &c. At no. 253 South Clark St., near Jackson, Chicago. L. F. Shanovski, - proprietor. [graphic].
Publisher [Chicago] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1888]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.75 in)
Description Trade card promoting L.F. Shanovski’s shoe store and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese man upset that a cat has taken a rat from his plate. Shows the man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in red pants and brown cloth slip-on shoes, holding a large white plate across his chest and a pair of chopsticks in his right hand. He opens his mouth upset that a cat is taking a dead rat from his plate. Louis F. Shanovski was born in Germany and moved to Chicago in the early 1870s, opening a shoe store in circa 1877. The firm L.F. Shanovski and Bro. dissolved in 1899.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised.
Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
RVCDC
Subject Shanovski, Louis F.
Cats.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chopsticks.
Eating & drinking.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Men -- Chinese.
Plates (Tableware)
Racism in popular culture.
Rats.
Shoe industry -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade cards - Shanovski, L.F. [P.2023.43.1]
Accession number P.2023.43.1