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"Day & Frick" - Chinese Laundry Soap
"Day's Soap Does It." - Stereotyped Laundry Worker Plunges Hands in Washtub
1887 Mechanical Trade Card with Poem: Day & Frick, Philadelphia - Large Washboard & Washtub Novelty Victorian Advertising Trade Card
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Item Details
Approx. 4 x 5.5 inches, Avil & Co. Lith, Phila., Copyrighted 1887 by Day & Frick, Mechanical: card layers and slit, with moving arms to plunge clothes
Oversized Novelty Card:
"Day's Soap Does It."
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Chinese Laundry Sign: The vertical font typography behind the immigrant worker from China is presented to look at a glance like Chinese lettering, but the sign actually just says: Days Soap.
Poem "dialect" stereotype: "Washee, Washee, See Him Rub / On His Washboard in the Tub...."
From www research and / or Wikipedia:
* Chinese Exclusion Act *
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act followed the Angell Treaty of 1880, a set of revisions to the US–China Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that allowed the US to suspend Chinese immigration.
The act was initially intended to last for 10 years, but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act and made permanent in 1902.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.
c. 1800's - Offensive Racial Ethnic Stereotypes used in Victorian "humor."
-- I do NOT support racist positions, but this card has historical importance for documentation
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