Details
Title Use Muzzy's starch [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 15 x 10 cm (5.75 x 4 in.)
Description Trade card promoting Elkhart Starch Company and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese man laundry worker holding up a shirt to a white family. Shows the family standing in the right, including the white man, attired in a brown bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a brown-checked suit, holding a walking stick; the white woman attired in a yellow and pink hat and a blue dress with a red bow; and the white girl, attired in a yellow hat and a red and blue dress, holding a small box. In the left, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic and blue pants with yellow accents, stands behind a table with an iron and ironing board on top of it. He holds up a white shirt, which shows the reflection of the white woman. A basket full of laundry is on the ground. In the background is a stove and a clothesline of white shirts and clothes. A.L. Muzzy built the Muzzy & Sage Mill in Elkhart, Indiana in 1870. Albert R. Beardsley (1847-1924) purchased the mill in 1878 and founded the Elkhart Starch Company. The Company was bought by the National Starch in 1893.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised.
Advertising text printed on verso: "Be sure to use Muzzy's Corn Starch." Includes six recipes, including for sponge pudding, creamy pudding sauce, Salem pudding, scolloped oysters, oyster pie, and butter scotch.
Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
RVCDC
Subject Elkhart Starch Company.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cleaning establishments.
Clotheslines.
Ethnic stereotypes.
Families.
Girls.
Irons (Pressing).
Laundries.
Laundries (Rooms & spaces)
Laundry.
Laundry workers.
Men -- Chinese.
Women.
Racism in popular culture.
Reflections.
Starch industry -- Indiana -- Elkhart.
Queue (Hairstyle)
Women.
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade cards - Muzzy [P.2023.43.3]
Accession number P.2023.43.3