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[Boardwalk, Coney Island : stereoscopic photonegative, ca. 1908.]
- Notes
- In box 1.1.1 [162], moved from [158]
- Original envelope marked "Brown Bros. '08." No publisher's catalog or caption located. Original number on envelope: 134-B
- Summary
- Boardwalk scene: "The China" chop suey restaurant and "The Subway Hotel," advertising "moving pictures." Identified by visitors as Surf Avenue, Mardi Gras
- Date
- 1908
- ca 1908
- 1890-1920
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- photographer
- White, C. W
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- photographers
- Brown Bros
- Subject
- Subway Hotel
- China, The (restaurant)
- Local number
- RSN 140
- 94-3581 (OPPS Neg. No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Dennis Manochio Fireworks Collection, ca. 1920s-1940s
- Notes
- Collector of patriotic ephemera and fireworks dealer
- Summary
- Fireworks packaging, labels, wrappers and boxes. Many of the labels contain illustrations and logos with ethnic imagery, often stereotypical, and a variety of other subjects, as listed below
- Cite as
- Dennis Manochio Fireworks Collection, ca. 1920s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- ca 1920s-1940s
- collector
- Manochio, Dennis
- Subject
- Little Bo-Peep (Fictitious character)
- Superman (Fictitious character)
- Sambo (Fictitious character)
- Local number
- 1996.3030 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Libby McNeill and Libby Corned Cooked Beef Meat advertisement : trade card]
- Summary
- Trade card featuring Chinese men dancing around while wearing product boxes as clothing. Caption: "John ate the delicious Meat, And it made him feel so good That he dressed himself for the fete, In the elegant can which contained Libby, McNeill and Libby's Cooked Corned Beef."
- advertiser
- Libby, McNeill and Libby Meats
- Local number
- 040060169.tif(AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Ethnic portraits on fan : cigar label, ca. 1879?]
- Summary
- Cigar label depicts several different ethnic groups and a chimpanzee on a fan under the title, Professor Darwin
- Date
- 1879
- ca 1879
- advertiser
- F. Heppenheimer's Sons
- Local number
- 040060117.tif (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Aladdin [book], 1895
- Summary
- Despite the title, in blue ink at the bottom of the image, the figure is apparently wearing Chinese costume. "Copyrighted 1895 / McLoughlin Bros. / New York" at lower left
- Date
- 1895
- advertiser
- McLoughlin Bros
- Subject
- Aladdin
- Local number
- AC0060-0000059 (AC Scan No.: cover image)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Chinese man in purple, smoking long pipe : advertising illustration]
- Summary
- Image of man is imprinted on an image of a piece of fabric with four button holes--the shape of a collar or cuff?). Union Clothing Co. stamp below image. "Tobacco" in pencil, upper left
- Date
- 1920
- 1930
- advertiser
- Union Clothing Company (Main Cor. Water St., Rochester, New York)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000062 (AC Scan No., does not include entire item)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Chinese boy holding mail on left. 4 stamps on right. : trade card]
- Notes
- Originally catalogued as French, by D. Hutinet, but the source of this attribution is unclear
- Daniel Low was a jeweler and seller of diamonds, watches, jewelry and silverware, according to imprints on related cards
- Summary
- Verso is blank. Card apparently has been cut down to remove the advertiser's name and address, which appear on similar cards in collection and which are slightly larger. The whole series of cards uses an international theme, with costumed figures and images of stamps to reinforce the theme. No evidence of a "D. Hutinet."
- Date
- 1880
- advertiser
- Low, Daniel (Salem, Mass.)
- unclear reference
- D. Hutinet
- Local number
- AC0060-0000068 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
The Chinese Question Solved / by the Peerless Wringer [text above image] [trade card]
- Summary
- Illustration: Caucasian wringing frightened Chinese man's queue through a No. 2-1/2 Peerless wringer. The concept of the cartoon is that laundry machinery would put Chinese laundries out of business. This is a two-color image
- Date
- 1880
- 1890
- advertiser
- Peerless Wringer Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000069 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Just in Case . . . [Calendar illustration]
- Summary
- June 1949 calendar page: Two men standing outside a synthetic rubber factory. One is pointing to a Chinese(?) man squatting with potted rubber plants and a sign
- Date
- 1949
- advertiser
- The Brown Calendar
- Local number
- AC0060-0000072 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Flip card with two images of a Chinese laundry : trade card]
- Summary
- Image sequence on a single folded card, of Caucasian man and Chinese laundry proprietor. In first image, the Chinese man admonishes the customer about his unpaid bill. When the card is unfolded, a second image shows the customer demonstrating that his celluloid collar doesn't need to be laundered. Each picture has a dialogue caption; the customer seems contemptuous of the Chinese man, whose bill he has not paid. Text on verso: "Waterproof Linen, / Patented. / Ladies' and Gents' / Cuffs, Collars, & Bosoms..."
- Date
- 1880
- 1890
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Waterproof Linen
- Local number
- AC0060-0000073; AC0060-0000074 (AC Scan Nos.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
