| Title |
Giving gas. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
United States |
| Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1870 |
| Date |
[ca. 1870] |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
Comic genre scene showing a dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, administering gas to a male patient seated in a chair.
A pipe hangs from the dentist's mouth. His young male helper watches the scene with glee. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist,"
hangs on the wall.
|
| Is part of |
Comic series. Groups from Life. |
| Notes |
Title on negative. |
|
Buff mount with rounded corners. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Gift of William Helfand. |
| Subject |
Dentistry. |
|
Dental offices. |
|
Portraits and genre. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Genre photographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Humorous pictures -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.2] |
| Accession number |
P.2009.13.2 |
