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.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised. |
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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.
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Gift of Linda Kimiko August. |
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RVCDC |
Subject |
Elkhart Starch Company. |
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Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Cleaning establishments. |
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Clotheslines. |
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Ethnic stereotypes. |
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Families. |
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Girls. |
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Irons (Pressing). |
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Laundries. |
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Laundries (Rooms & spaces) |
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Laundry. |
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Laundry workers. |
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Men -- Chinese. |
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Women. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Reflections. |
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Starch industry -- Indiana -- Elkhart. |
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Queue (Hairstyle) |
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Women. |
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AAPI. |
Genre |
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890. |
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Trade cards -- 1880-1890. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade cards - Muzzy [P.2023.43.3] |
Accession number |
P.2023.43.3 |