| Title |
Fireman. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., No. 134 William St., N.Y. |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
The valentine shows a fireman straddling a firehose. He smokes a cigar. The sender mocks the recipient's womanizing, drinking,
and fixation on fire fighting, and urges him to settle down. "Mose" is the name of the fireman in Benjamin Baker's play New
York as it is.
|
| Notes |
Text: Mose loves nothing so well as a fire, / Except it be women and wine; / If I love Mose it is with a desire / To make
Mose open his eyes and eye her / Who loves nothing so well as a VALENTINE.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Fire fighters -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
English language -- Provinicialisms -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.152.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
|
Baker, Benjamin A., 1818-1890. New york as it is. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 4.2 |
