One of the B'hoys.
American wit and humor.
Five Points (New York, N.Y.) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Working class men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
A young man wears a stove-pipe hat, red jacket, and boots, marking him as a Bowery B'hoy, or young working class man from the Five Points neighborhood in New York City. He stands in front of another male figure who smokes a pipe and wears a stove-pipe hat. "Get the bag" means to be fired.
Text: Each swollen eye, each dirty rag, / Of brawls and battles tell us; / You seek my heart -- you'll get the bag, / And won't get nothing else.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
[S.l. : s.n.]
[between 1840 and 1880?]
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
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Comic Valentines, 8.8