Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., Above image: Notions of the Agreeable. No.42., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22, Denmark Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Obesity, Kettles, Sick persons, Fireplaces, Cats, and Bells
Judge (16:411), page 336-337. By Grant Hamilton, note the masthead is Judge, not The Judge. On the left side, Dr. Brown-Sequard Randall sits in an upholstered green wing chair, holding a bottle of fluid in left hand and a large syringe with hollow needle in his right. The needle is curved at the end, with its hole on the side just where the curve starts, the syringe is a simple piston. The Brown-Séquard figure is Samuel Jackson Randall, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, who had lost President Cleveland's favor two years earlier. He had been a protectionist since the 1860s despite that position's being unpopular in his party. He is now well supplied with two large tanks of "Protectionism" as an "Elixir of Life." But it's too late, he says, for this rejuvenation juice to revive the Democratic Party and its debilitated Free Trade policy. The central figures are Charles A. Dana (with a tag to identify him as owner-editor of the New York Sun) and Joseph Pulitzer (proprietor of the New York World, apparently recognizable without a label), who have brought a tiger (the Democratic Party, see tag on the tail) in for Doctor Randall's protectionism treatment. At the right, "Free Trade" is being carried in by two men coming from the U.S. Capitol, visible behind them in the doorway: Roger Quarles Mills, Congressman (later Senator) from Texas, and Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Watterson, not "Waterson" (Is the mis-spelling a further joke on this fellow editor?) was an aggressive advocate of free-trade ideas. By chance, Randall died at age 62 in April 1890, less than a year after this cartoon appeared. Sequard appears several times in caption and on the inside, but never with an accent. June (and early July?) issues seem to have several verbal quips about doctors mistakenly thinking a man dead and wanting to bury him. Hansen database #2049.
Harper's Monthly (57:338), page 171-189, in complete issue. Article by William H. Rideing. Images include: "New York Hospital, A street accident, Private patient's room New York Hospital, Doctor treating Sullivan's fractured foot, Children's ward Bellevue Hospital, Writing home on an adjustable table, Bellevue Hospital, A game of dominoes Bellevue Hospital, Taking an airing Bellevue Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Shaking hands with the house father at St. Luke's Hospital-children's ward, The churchman cot St. Luke's Hospital, The laundry at St. Luke's Hospital, Convalescents Homeopathic Hospital Brooklyn, The south window Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital, The Roosevelt Hospital." Hansen database #2187.
Harper's Weekly (31:1157), page 8-9. Double-page spread of seven vignettes drawn by Frederick Dielman. Page seven text (about 12 inches) is entitled "Hospital Saturday and Sunday." Hansen database #128.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, page 372. Wide cartoon, upper page, by Opper. Worker for Street Cleaning Department tells Father Knickerbocker that you can't do a mile a day very well. Hansen database #11.
Scientific American Supplement (36:915), page 14626, in complete issue. Article with 3 illustrations also includes image of the skeletons of man and horse. Hansen database #3671.
Puck (2:46), front cover. J. Keppler, four men are on the cow-catcher as railroad train passes over a bridge. Only color overlay seems to be grey. Additional text page 2. Hansen database #149.
Judge (19:484), page 282, in bound volume. In a column of short jokes: "Two pictures in the World of bacilli before taking and after taking lymph show, as far as we can discern, that the lymph is a powerful destroyer; but one suspects that the original intention of the artist was to show up the proud condition and the subsequent wreck of the barge of Cleopatra." Hansen database #2074.
