A farmer kills mice by piping a canister of of Lepit poison gas into an underground passage; advertising Lepit gas appliances. Colour lithograph by Lünge (?), ca. 192-.
- Date:
- [between 1920 and 1929?]
- Reference:
- 2002677i
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Description
A boy gleefully holds up a dead mouse. Other dead mice and/or rats litter the cornfield behind, with fumes of Lepit gas (hydrogen sulphide?) emerging from below ground, with apparent risk to humans
Publication/Creation
[Mainz?] : [Chemische Fabrik Ludwig Meyer?], [between 1920 and 1929?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 61.4 x 44.1 cm
Lettering
Vernichtet Mäuse und Ratten durch Lepit Gaspatronen. Lünge.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2002677i
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Location Status Access Closed stores