Content: Printed on image (in part): "Coolie, slave, pauper and rat-eater" "The Chinese question. 'The Chinaman works cheap because he is a barbarian and seeks gratification of only the lowest, the most inevitable wants' Wendell Phillips" "Crimes and drunkeness. Riots by pure white strikers." Printed on border: "Columbia. 'Hands off, gentlemen! America means fair play for all men.'" Written on mount: "Feb. 18, 1871."
Source Note: Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. (New York : Harper' s Weekly Co., 1857-1916).

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17514010
Barcode: 33333159459789
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0ff32820-c554-012f-579d-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1871

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Chinese question" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1871. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0ff32820-c554-012f-579d-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1871). The Chinese question Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0ff32820-c554-012f-579d-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The Chinese question" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0ff32820-c554-012f-579d-58d385a7bc34

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