Details
Title The Baker.
Publisher [New York : McLouhglin [sic] Bros.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A baker in a paper hat is putting a pie into an oven. His shoe has split open and his red nose, combined with the word "sodden," imply that he is drunk while on the job.
Notes Text: What! Buy of you! Your senseless grin / Would sour all your pies, / And not a loaf, poor, sodden oaf, / But would smatter of your lies. / Heavy as lead, your lightest bread, / Cakes, buns, and buscuits, all; / Smash your paper cap on your grinning head, / And into your oven crawl!
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Bakers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cleanliness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.6