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Electric hobby. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A99480
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Creator
Weller, F. G. (Franklin G.), 1833-1877.
Title
Electric hobby. [graphic].
Publisher
Littleton, N. H. : Published by F. G. Weller, photographer of White Mountain scenery, also views of frost, ice, flowers, sporting scenes, and miscellaneous subjects
Publisher
N.H. Littleton. 1872
Date
c1872
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Comic genre scene showing the interior of a drug store or pharmacy. Apothecary and medicine bottles line shelves covering the walls and broadsides advertising Ayers Augue Pills, Hair Invigorators, Castoria, and Catarrh treatments hang on the walls and doors. Shows a practitioner shocking his patient with an electro-magnetic device. An amused employee holding a pestle and mortar watches from the doorway.
Is part of
Stereoscopic treasures No. 351
Notes
Copyrighted 1872 by F. G. Weller.
Title from publisher's imprint on verso.
Publisher's imprint printed on verso within decorative border.
Tan 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
Drugstores.
Medicines.
Electrostatic accelerators.
Quacks.
Advertisements.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Genre photographs -- 1870-1880.
Humorous pictures -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Miscellaneous - Weller [P.2009.13.1]
Accession number
P.2009.13.1
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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