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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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-. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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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