A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.

Date:
[1854]
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24866i
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New York (152 Nassau St.) : Currier & Ives, [1854]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Notice to smokers and chewers. ... r requested .. the .. & ..., & ... throw their ... & ... the ..., or out at the ... Lettering on the print is punctuated with various pictures used to represent missing words. Solution: Gentlemen are requested to spit in the spittoon and not on the floor, and to throw their butts and stumps in the stove, or out at the window.

References note

Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt & Norman Petteway, "Human alphabets", in Amor librorum. Bibliographic and other essays ..., Amsterdam 1958, pp. 97-132 (p. 104; p. 108, fig. 57)

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Wellcome Collection 24866i

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