(6) A SET OF SIX COLOR CHINESE RACIST-STEREOTYPE TRADE CARD ADVERTISEMENTS. H660. Description: 6 color trade cards. With racist, stereotypic images of Chinese, varying in size from 2½x4¼ to 3x5". Includes: Lavine Soap, showing a group of Chinese of the , “Yong Gee Fum Laundry” dancing around a box of detergent. Chinese laundrymen sailing back to China while one watches white men bathing in the ocean wearing neat white shirts, lamenting “No more washee washee, Melican wear Celluloid Collar and Cuff”. Caucasian salesman displaying a box of Waterproof Celluloid Cuffs and Collars to Chinese in a laundry, Johnson & Hinck Groceries, Minneapolis (printed by McAlloster, Chicago), with caricature of Chinese men running in fright from a large dog, captioned, “Ha! Ha! John Chinaman, He eatie doggie”Scarce card for John Wanamaker & Co. boys clothing, Philadelphia (printed by Rogers & Florance, Phila.) with caricature of three Chinese apparently floating in space beside a half moon. Another unconventional Wanamaker Co. card, with picture of a Chinese woman on a tight-rope, advertising Merrick Thread, captioned “Melican Man’s Cotton, Muchee Strong!” This was something of a cross-over, the scene more reminiscent of trade cards depicting Japanese acrobats (see next entry). Date: c.1870s-80s Condition Report: Near fine. Domestic shipping (48 states): $35.H660.