Details
Title Shop-Girl.
Publisher [New York] : H. De Marsan, Publisher of songs and ballads, 54 Chatham Str. N.Y.
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The shop-girl walks holding up her skirt so that it reveals her crinoline. A man watches her and holds his hand to his face.
Notes Text: How gracelessly you move along / Like tun-dish upside down! / Pray, stay at home when streets are throng, / Lest some ungallant clown / Might tread upon that wondrous skirt / That sweeps from curb to wall, / And say: 'twas only right a flirt / From pride should have a fall.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Women clerks (Retail trade) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Flirting -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pride and vanity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 9.45