Details
Creator Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Contributor Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Title "That pesky rat again" [graphic].
Publisher New York: Strohmeyer & Wyman
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1896
Date c1896
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Comic genre scene showing a male suitor "hunting" a rat loose in the bedroom of two young ladies attired in their bed clothes. The man rests on his knees and holds a shoe above the rat, which flees under a bed on which one woman, in a nightdress and on all fours, looks in fear. Another woman, in underclothes, stands on a chair near an overturned plant stand and the man while holding a plate in the air in wait for the "rat." Also shows wallpapered walls, drapery covering windows, and a framed print showing a couple in a canoe.
Notes Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Title printed in six different languages on verso.
Gift of Jesse Randall.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Women.
Bedrooms.
Relations between the sexes.
Sleepwear.
Genre Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Genre photographs -- 1890-1900.
Humorous pictures -- 1890-1900.
Printer Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.11]
Accession number P.2005.19.11