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Title A Country Store Keeper.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A store keeper stands behind the counter. He has a red nose and pencil tucked behind his ear. Behind the counter are a large number of labeled goods, showing the variety of odds and ends in his stock. The valentine suggests that his customers would be less inclined to be attracted to him than to buy some of the junk he sells.
Notes Text: In your shop folks can find every goods, and more too-- / Grass, grogs and grocery; fruits, old and new; / Wood-ware and all wares, temperance gin, / Brooms, bristles and bed-clothes, to draw in the tin; / All things you can sell by the large or the small, / And you are the very worst sell of them all.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Clerks -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Consumption (Economic) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.30