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[Don't blow out the gas] [graphic].
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Title
[Don't blow out the gas] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States], W.H. Carpenter
Date
c1901
Physical Description
1 print : halftone photomechanical print ; sheet 10.5 x 14 cm. (4 x 5.5 in.), folded to 10.5 x 7 cm. (4 x 2.75 in.)
Description
Illustrated humorous trade card depicting a man with a long beard toting a bag and hat in his right hand about to open the door to enter a bathroom. The card opens up to reveal a disheveled-looking man in suspenders, perhaps one who has never seen an indoor bathroom, washing his face in the toilet. A sign reading, "Don't blow out the gas," hangs on the opposite wall above the bathtub.
Notes
Copyright, 1901, by W.H. Carpenter.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note on on verso includes numbers and prices: 500, $7.00 ; 1000, $12.00
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Selma Kessler.
Subject
Bathing.
Bathrooms.
Bathtubs & showers.
Toilets.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1900-1910.
Halftone photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Humorous pictures -- 1900-1910.
Printer
Carpenter, W.H., copyright holder.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Misc [P.2008.21.3]
Accession number
P.2008.21.3
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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