For Ways That Are Dark and Tricks That Are Vain the Heathen Chinee Is Peculiar

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Chinese Historical Society of America

Name/Title

For Ways That Are Dark and Tricks That Are Vain the Heathen Chinee Is Peculiar

Entry/Object ID

CHSA-04970

Scope and Content

Color. Illus. Caricatures; Bret Harte; Chinese Men; Fishing: A Chinese man with a queue is lying on his back in a boat smoking a pipe, his queue his hanging into the water with a hook and bait at the end, there are fish and a turtle around his hook. Front: Caption: "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee is peculiar." Message: "Sep.5.05. New York. N.Y., Are going through her.", handwritten in black. "Bret Harte"; "A.C. Bosselman & Co., 469 Broadway." Back: Postmark: "New York, NY. Sta O Sep 5 1905 8:30 PM" and "Cloversville N.Y. Rec'd Sep 6 1905 11 AM". Stamp: A green one cent stamp with a picture of Benjamin Franklin. " Addressee: "Miss Evelyn F. Judson(?) 22 Highland Terrance Cloversville N.Y." Old Accession: E)

Dimensions

Width

3-1/2 in