| Title |
One of the B'hoys. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A young man wears a stove-pipe hat, red jacket, and boots, marking him as a Bowery B'hoy, or young working class man from
the Five Points neighborhood in New York City. He stands in front of another male figure who smokes a pipe and wears a stove-pipe
hat. "Get the bag" means to be fired.
|
| Notes |
Text: Each swollen eye, each dirty rag, / Of brawls and battles tell us; / You seek my heart -- you'll get the bag, / And
won't get nothing else.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Five Points (New York, N.Y.) -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Working class men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.359.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 8.8 |
