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Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Title Money's scarce [graphic] / From James Cremer, importer and dealer in frames, cases and stereoscopes. Publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: James Cremer
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Comic genre scene depicting a frowning female proprietor asking for money from a male customer patronizing her rustic tavern. She holds her hand out to the surprised man seated on a barrel and rummaging in his pants pocket. Another male customer points and laughs at the man from behind the slightly ajar tavern door. In the background, patrons smoke long pipes, play cards, and are served below a sign inscribed "Pay to Day & Trust Tomorrow."
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Jane Carson James.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Debt.
Taverns (Inns)
Women-owned business enterprises -- United States.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Genre photographs -- 1870-1880.
Humorous pictures -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - Cremer - Genre [P.9299.13]
Accession number P.9299.13