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William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
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Title
A Baker.
Publisher
[S.l.: s.n.]
Date
[between 1840 and 1880?]
Description
A baker stands in front of his oven. He is smoking a pipe and his shovel leans on the wall next to him.
Notes
Text: The bread that you bake is not fit for a dog, / Your pies and your cake would sicken a hog; / Sawdust-flour you use, rancid butter and lard, / For such practice you ought to be feathered and tarred, / Or else to be taken and baked in your oven -- / You dirty old cheat, and rascal, and sloven.
Genre
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject
American wit and humor.
Bakers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Food poisoning -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cleanliness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Is part of
William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
Provenance
Helfand, William H.
Identifier
Comic Valentines, 14.5 [P.2007.42.5]
In Collections
William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
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