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Title Dirty, ugly, vulgar, pert,
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A maid polishes a pair of boots. The valentine plays on the words work and play to suggest that the maid is promiscuous.
Notes Text: Dirty, ugly, vulgar, pert, / So begrimed with grease and dirt, / I vow that I should be afraid of, / Seeing what that maid is made of, / Tho’ call’d maid of all work! They / Say you’re often made of play, / And when with sweethearts you’ve your swing / The maid is quite a different thing!
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Cleanliness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Women domestics -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Promiscuity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.35