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Life in New York. "Blakey I say, can't you by the powers of your stame engine..?"

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Racist caricature ridiculing well-to-do African American merchants and working-class Irish. Depicts the well-dressed "merchant" of a "Patent Steam" laundry and his fashionable wife being approached by a ragged barefoot Irishman holding an old dirty waistcoat. The Irishman asks the merchant to "shift" his coat for a new one, as by the appearance of the merchant's coat, he is just the man for whom he has been looking since leaving "Kilarney." The merchant and his wife are "salted" by the notion that they are of the same nature as the "ruffian" and will "larn" him better by telling him to "ply to the office."; C. Ingrey, lithog., 310 Strand.; Inscribed: Pl. 2.; Forms part of: Life in New York (London).

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Caricatures
  3. Caricatures And Cartoons
  4. Cleaning Establishments
  5. Clothing & Dress
  6. Color
  7. Irish Americans
  8. Lithographs
  9. New York
  10. New York (State)

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