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Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Clothing (Greg Smart)
GUSN-195269
This trade card for celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit objects and / or historical text.
A girl, dressed in an overoat and sash, wears a cuff formed into a hat with a cufflink on her head, cuffs on her sleeves, and a collar. She holds a walking stick and smokes a clay pipe.
celluloid (cellulosic)
overcoats (outerwear)
collars (neckwear)
dickeys
cuffs (costume components)
walking sticks
pipes (smoking equipment)
girls
advertising
business (commercial function)
clothing
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements
printed ephemera
DigitalID 000402
AccessID 602
Other identifier HNEDID-000402
1 trade card : color illustration
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.023.01.01.002
1880s-1890s
China
New York City (New York state)
Donaldson Brothers (Firm) (printer)
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements
printed ephemera
queues (hair)
smoking
Girl
Child
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Chinese
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Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Clothing (Greg Smart)
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