The tables turned : you sabe him, Kealney must go.

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Title: The tables turned : you sabe him, Kealney must go.
Contributor: Choynski, I. N. 1834-1899, publisher.
Published / Created: 1877 or 1878?
Publication Place: San Francisco and United States California San Francisco
Publisher: Publ. by I.N. Choynski, antiquarian
Abstract: Print depicts Denis Kearney, a leader of the Workingmen's Party of California and an Irish immigrant active in the late 19th century who was known for his racist views about Chinese immigrants, behind bars in the San Francisco House of Correction, where Kearney was detained; a group of stereotypically drawn ethnically Chinese men mock Kearney in his cell holding various objects representing their employment, seafood, including a fish labeled "Black Friday" (after the stock market catastrophe that took place on September 24, 1869 due to gold speculation panic and initiated a state-wide depression in the 1870s), laundry, and cigars; baskets filled with fish on floor; "House of Correction, 181" on sign above prison cell door
Description: Title from caption below image.
Other states of print in color.
Extent: 1 print : 23 x 33 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Pictorial works
Political cartoons
Lithographs
Material: black and white lithograph ;, paper, ink, lithography, and single sided
Resource Type: still image and text
Subject (Geographic): California
Subject (Name): Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907
Workingmen's Party of California
Subject (Topic): Chinese Americans
History
Labor policy
Emigration and immigration
Subjects: Kearney, Denis, 1847-1907 > Portraits
Workingmen's Party of California > Pictorial works
Chinese Americans > California > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
Labor policy > California > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
California > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Pictorial works

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