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Title: The old way. The new way
Description: Cartoon satirizing old and modern business practices. Shows a split view of two white men, possibly merchants or bankers. In the left, a thin man with disheveled hair sits on a crate near an overturned basket filled with credit vouchers at his feet. He is attired in a shirt, ragged pants and jacket, and shoes with holes in them. He holds his right hand up to his forehead in a gesture of distress for “he gave credit.” To his right is an open window in which a sign reading “The Poor House” is visible. In the right, a white man, sits, cross legged, in a chair between a table covered with a cloth on which he rests his elbow and a safe on which a “Government Securities” box of “U.S. Bonds” is set. He wears his hair combed back and has long mutton chops. He is attired in a suit, bow tie, vest adorned with a watch fob, and shined shoes. He holds a cigar in his left hand, his lapel in his right hand, and blows smoke from his mouth., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 in the clerks' office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York., Image captioned: I Gave Credit. I Sell for Cash., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2019, p. 91.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1870 Old [P.2019.54.2]

Title: [Scraps no. 3 for 1832]
Description: Plate two from the 1832 edition of, "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and everyday life, such as dueling, juries, the wealthy, debt, education, and the use of coal as a fuel. Includes "Fair Play: Safe Play" depicting two absurd methods of dueling utilizing chalked figures on a rotund man and a barn door; "Hunger Versus Judgment Jury -Room" depicting a hungry jury voting for execution in order to adjourn for dinner; "Who Are You Looking At?" depicting an indignant white man looking at the viewer; "The Last Bell" depicting a wealthy, white "belle" with an entourage transporting her numerous belongings for a river voyage, annoyed with her son who has fallen in the water; "Military Precocity" depicting a young white boy aspiring to fit into his grandfather's oversized military uniform; "Anti-Phlogistic" depicting white gentlemen experimenting with safe, economical "Rhode Island coal" in a fireplace attended by an African American man servant; "Primary School Examination" depicting an elementary classroom where a white man teacher is mocked as a "jackass" and a white girl student reveals during a spelling lesson that her mother takes rum in her tea; "An Incarcerated Monster" depicting a white man artisan debtor on display in his prison cell in front of a wealthy family commenting about his deserved incarceration as a monster., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 2., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 2., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., African American household employees
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-Scr (b) [P.2275.26]

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