She was bossing those Chinks with a few words of pigden and keeping an eye on our decks.

She was bossing those Chinks with a few words of pigden and keeping an eye on our decks.
She was bossing those Chinks with a few words of pigden and keeping an eye on our decks.

She was bossing those Chinks with a few words of pigden and keeping an eye on our decks.

Date1917
Artist (American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960)
Illustration Citation"The Love Winds of Port O'Flowers," by Henry Oyen, in Everybody's Magazine, February 1918
MediumCrayon, watercolor, graphite, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 22 × 29 3/4 in. (55.9 × 75.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Frieda Becher, 1971
Object number1971-44
On View
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe narrator of this tale, a sailor in the North Pacific island town Port O'Flowers, becomes enamored of a European woman, who ultimately reunites with her absent wealthy husband. Pejorative racial epithets characterized much popular literature of the day.
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