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A "lily footed" woman of China - this outrage against nature has been in vogue 900 years. [graphic].
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Creator
Underwood & Underwood.
Title
A "lily footed" woman of China - this outrage against nature has been in vogue 900 years. [graphic].
Publisher
New York ; London ; Toronto, Canada ; Ottawa, Kansas ; Arlington, N.J. ; Littleton, N. H. ; Washington, D. C. : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, works and studios
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1900
Date
1900
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description
Stereograph depicting a full-length portrait of a Chinese woman with her bound feet on display. Shows the woman wearing her hair tied back and attired in a tunic and pants with decorative stripes and lotus shoes. She sits atop what is probably a wooden shelf with her feet resting on a circular wooden stool. She holds flowers in her left hand and looks slightly left. In the right is a tree stump and a flower pot on a wooden shelf. In the background are two chairs covered in cloth, and a patterned rug is on the floor.
Notes
Beige mount with rounded corners.
Contains Sun Sculpture trademark on mount.
Title printed on mount.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.
Title printed in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish on verso.
Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Subject
Chinese.
Decorative arts -- China.
Flowers.
Foot fetishism.
Footbinding.
Furniture -- China.
Women -- Chinese.
Women -- Chinese -- Clothing & dress.
Lotus shoes.
Racializaton and visual culture.
AAPI.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Underwood & Underwood [P.2023.43.4]
Accession number
P.2023.43.4
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Asian American and Pacific Islander History Collection
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