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Contributor Doerner & Gunther, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909. collector.
Title The celluloid corset clasps side & dress steels. [graphic] : Warranted not to rust. Corsets after washing. With the old style clasps in. With the new celluloid clasps in.
Publisher New York : Doerner & Gunther, 62 Duane St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Trade card advertising celluloid corset clasps and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men laundry workers comparing celluloid and traditional corsets. In the center, the laundry worker, wearing a queue hairstyle with the braid sticking straight out to the right and attired in gold hoop earrings, a red tunic, white pants, and blue and white cloth, slip-on shoes, smiles as he holds up a clean, white corset with celluloid clasps. In the left, the laundry worker, wearing a mustache and queue hairstyle and attired in a blue tunic, yellow pants, and blue and white cloth, slip-on shoes, holds a soiled and dirty corset as he opens his mouth in dismay looking at the clean corset. In the right background, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a yellow tunic, blue pants, and white cloth, slip-on shoes, washes laundry with his hands in a steaming washtub. Also visible are a basket of laundry; a corset hanging on a line; and a table with an iron on top of it.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Contains advertising text printed on verso: Celluloid corset clasps. Side and dress steels. Perspiration proof. Elastic. Durable. In introducing these improved corset clasps, &c., let us call your attention to some of the points of their superiority over all others heretofore in use. 1st.--The inferior is finely tempered clock spring steel. 2d.--The exterior is celluloid. 3d.--The combination of the two unites the strength of the steel with the rust-proof qualities of the celluloid. 4th--The trouble of ripping out and sewing in the steels every time corsets are laundried becomes unnecessary as these steels need not be taken out for that purpose. 5th--They are warranted not to rust and thus stain the corsets or other garments. 6th--They are the best steels in every particular ever offered. Sold by all dry and fancy goods dealers throughout the country.
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Celluloid Manufacturing Company.
Chinese.
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Corsets.
Laundries.
Laundries (Rooms & spaces).
Laundry.
Laundry workers.
Men -- Chinese.
Men -- Clothing & dress.
Racism in popular culture.
Textile industry.
Wash tubs.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909. collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Celluloid [1975.F.182]
Accession number 1975.F.182