| 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].
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| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Date inferred from content and history of the advertised business. |
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One print [1975.F.579] contains vignette printed on verso depicting a hand-held fan superimposed onto a ribbon. |
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RVCDC |
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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. |
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Cranes (Birds) |
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Diamonds. |
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Hair ornaments. |
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Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Japonism. |
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Jewelers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Kimonos. |
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Musical instruments. |
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Women -- Japanese. |
|
Racialization and visual culture. |
|
AAPI. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1880. |
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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 |
