Puck (18:454), page 192, back cover of a complete issue. "Dunstan Kirke Logan 'Twenty years ago--Disgusted Populace--Oh, Chestnut'!!!" Hansen database #978.
Puck (38:983), page 368, back cover. By F. Opper, six scenes: #1 speaker Mrs. Prof. Brayneford is introduced, #2-5 various criticisms which cause individual women to walk out, #6 "In conclusion, I would say that skirts which touch the ground are a menace to health, bringing microbes from the streets to our homes and firesides." Last guest departs, leaving only speakers and a hostess in tears. Coloring in blue, green, yellow, and orangey-red is nice, though format is not dramatic nor is design original. Hansen database #367.
Puck (40:1033), front cover of complete issue. By J. Taylor, Puck congratulating, "Major" (McKinley?), on coming inauguration, offering a Christmas gift of a sign "Public Office is a Public Trust." Hansen database #220.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (30:759), pages 66-67. An article essay with four images of women's medical college (dissection etc.). In this op-ed like piece by A. K. Gardner, M.D., he confesses that he made unkind and unfair judgments about them twenty years earlier, and says he was wrong. He has fairly strong praise for them now (if sexist in its assumptions). Hansen database #3994.
Puck (6:143), front cover of complete issue. J. Keppler, Uncle Sam as watch dog protecting public school funds from parochial schools. Hansen database #153.
Chic (1:18), page 42006, front cover, color. Very rare midwife image. "Young Democracy, Born at Cooper Institute, Tuesday, December 28, 1880. Monthly Nurse.--"Faix but yer a wake little crayture, all as wan as yer dead Mother. There's no sign av thrivin' about ye, at all, at all." In a windowless garret or basement, we see a dead donkey in bed to the left with this nurse holding the baby donkey, giving it a worried, cross-eyed look. Among the medications lying around: Develin plaster, Hancock powder, Bennett boodle, Hewitt's glue, Sun cholera mixture, Tilden Barl-y (sic) sugar. The nurse wears a checkered apron, a white bonnet or kerchief, stockings, and house slippers. Page 2 masthead is dated January 11, 1881, a day earlier than the cover date. "Published every Tuesday." No editorial on the cover, but there is a relevant 16-line verse about it, mentioning John Kelly, Irving, Tammany, and Hewitt. "Monthly nurse" was apparently a common term, often used in classified ads for women seeking positions. Seemingly this distinguished it from a children's nurse and graduate nurses were yet very uncommon. While not slovenly like Sairy Gamp, this figure carries no image of skill or professionalism. Hansen database #4397.
Puck (German), back cover. Translated by Hansen as "The Popular American Life Insurance Autopsy." Puck (speaking to Life Insurance Agent) "Is this the sort of treatment you insure your late customers?" Hansen database #3893.
