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Title: Kiriu Kosho Kuwaisha The first Japanese manufacturing and trading company
Description: Illustrated trade card promoting the Kiriu Kosho Kuwaisha, a Japanese manufacturing and trading company, and depicting two dragons with text in English and Japanese. Kiriu Kosho Kuwaisha was founded in 1873 and displayed their goods at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. The firm opened a branch in New York in 1877. The firm closed in 1891., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of the advertising business., Text printed on recto: Bronzes, lacquered, pottery and porcelain wares. Tea, silk, curiosities and other Japanese manufactures. No. 16 Takekawacho, Tokio, Japan. English correspondents Alexandra Palace Park Co., Muswell Hill, London. Branch House Sumpya, Hong Kong. Austrian Agent, C. Torou, Wallzeille, No. 1, Vienna., Advertising text printed on verso: Our firm, Kiriu Kosho Kuwaisha, (The First Japanese Manufacturing and Trading Company,) is established for the purpose of encouraging the Japanese industries, and of promoting the greatest possible perfection therein. Kan Gio Rio, (the Bureau of Industry,) fully co-operates with our firm, and we are authorized by that Bureau to sell all the Teas they manufacture. Fancy and useful articles, of the finest as well as the cheapest quality, sold at the lowest possible prices, Wholesale and Retail. Orders by mail promptly attended to. (See other side.), Purchased with partial funds for the Visual Culture Program.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kiriu [P.2024.7]

Title: A joyous Christmas and a happy New Year Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co., Stationers & engravers, 815 Arch St. Phila
Description: Trade card promoting engraver and stationer Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co. and depicting racist caricatures of a Chinese woman and two Chinese men. In the right, a Chinese woman, wearing her hair up with decorative pins and a flower and attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress, sits in a red chair and holds a bouquet of pink flowers. In the center, the Chinese man, wearing a beard and a queue hairstyle and attired in a purple tunic and green pants, stands with his arms folded. In the left, the Chinese man, wearing a goatee and queue hairstyle and attired in a red tunic, pink-and-white striped pants, and black cloth slip-on shoes, stands in front of the woman with his hands out. Also in the scene are a small dog and a red dragon., Title from item., Date inferred from calendar printed on verso., Text printed on verso: "Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co., Stationers & engravers, 815 Arch St., Philadelphia" with a monthly calendar for 1880., RVCDC.
Date: [1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Berman Trade Card Collection - Geo. Remsen Jr. & Co. [P.2015.56.299]

Title: China. J.M. Jellison, registered druggist, B. & M. Drug Co., Haymarket Street, Boston Keep this card
Description: Trade card promoting druggist James M. Jellison and depicting the Chinese Imperial yellow dragon flag. Shows the triangular, yellow flag decorated with a blue dragon on a bamboo flag pole., Title from item., Date from active dates of advertised business., Series no. on recto: 360., Text printed on recto: Buker Press, Advertising Novelties, Providence, R.I., Gift of William Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Jellison [P.9828.6206]

Title: John F. Patton, York, Penn'a
Description: Trade card promoting John D. Patton and depicting a catamaran with a dragon on the sail. Shows a vignette of a wooden catamaran with a red sail decorated with a dragon traveling on the water. Four men, attired in white shorts, sit and stand on the boat. A large crane and other birds fly in the sky. Vignette is set over a red background with decorative leaves and a scroll with the advertising text. John F. Patton relocated to York, Pennsylvania from Baltimore and started his drug business in 1869., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: You will never go amiss, if you go to Wallick’s Book Store, to make your purchases, books and stationery, pictures & frames, and a great variety of fancy goods. Remember Wallick’s Book Store. The city drug store is the best place in York, to buy drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, perfumery, &c., &c. and John F. Patton, is the man to sell them to you, and don’t you forger it., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Patton [P.9828.6582]

Title: Japanese screen and bronzes
Description: View showing a screen and bronze sculpture, urn, and vases on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows the ornately decorated pieces on a tablecloth lined table. From left to right are: a vase decorated with flowers; an urn; sculptures of a bird holding a snake in its beak, a dragon, and a crane standing on a turtle; and a pillar vase decorated with a chicken, flowers, and leaves. Behind the table is a screen depicting a tree, flowers, and several kinds of birds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.2011.47.517]

Title: Japanese bronzes, main building
Description: View showing three bronzes in a glass case on display at the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Shows ornately decorated bronzes, probably koro (incense burners). In the center, the large bronze is decorated with trees, a figure of a person, dragons on the feet, and a bird with outstretched wings at the top. Flanking are two bronzes decorated with trees and figures, including a man holding an ax. Partial view of vases in the left and right of the case. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Centennial Photo. Co. [P.8700.8]

Title: China. E.F. Keeler, druggist, Groton, Ct
Description: Trade card promoting druggist E.F. Keeler and depicting a racist caricature of a Chinese woman, symbolizing China, attired in a dress of the Imperial yellow dragon flag. Shows a Chinese woman, wearing her hair in a long braid and attired in a conical hat, a yellow dress with a green dragon on the front, yellow gloves, and white dress shoes. She stands on her toes with her hands up., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Keeler [P.9828.6242]

Title: Superstitious Chinese children covering their faces to avoid being photographed
Description: Photograph depicting a Chinese man and four Chinese children on a platform at the entrance of the Chinese Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Shows a boy standing with his back to the viewer, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a red cap, a blue shirt and pants, and blue cloth slip-on shoes. In the left, the boy, attired in a blue cap, a pink shirt and pants, and blue cloth slip-on shoes, sits on a chair and looks to the left. Beside him, a seated young girl, wearing a pink bow in her hair and attired in a pink shirt and pants, and blue cloth slip-on shoes, covers her face with both of her hands. In the right, a child, attired in a dark blue shirt, blue pants, and blue cloth slip-on shoes, sits and raises their arm and hands to cover their face. In the left behind the children, a Chinese man, attired in a conical hat, a dark blue shirt and pants, and cloth slip-on shoes, stands and holds possibly a torch. A white man, wearing a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt and a gray suit, stands and faces the viewer. A green dragon with its mouth open decorates the platform. A decorative wooden railing is visible along the background. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was held from April 30 to December 1, 1904 in commemoration of the centennial of the Purchase. More than 60 countries and 43 of the American states displayed exhibits at the fair, which was attended by 19.7 million people. The Chinese Pavilion included a theater, a temple, a tea house, a bazaar, and a reproduction of the summer home of Prince Pu Lun, the Imperial Commissioner. In the Chinese Village were Chinese merchants, mechanics, painters, waiters, silk weavers, musicians, performers, and children. The children were set at the entrance of the concession to attract visitors., Green mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Date inferred from content and date of event., Text printed on verso: In the Chinese Village there were nine little Chinese children who were shrewdly employed at the entrance to the concession as a drawing feature and who attracted great crowds of people. The youngest child was but three years old. Both parents lived in the village as merchants. The favorite with the visitors was Fanny Moy, the seven-year old daughter of the village druggist. She possessed a sweet voice and spoke English almost without any foreign accent. The largest boy, nine years old, was an accomplished musician and took also a prominent part in the theatrical performances. The children were under government inspection, and physicians detailed from the army service looked after their physical welfare, while a returned missionary instructed them in English. Each child was under a bond of $500 to secure their safe return to China after the exposition., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Creator: Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), 1862-1922
Date: 1904
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos – misc. – Ingersoll [P.2023.43.6]

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