A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.

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[1854]
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24866i
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A picture-written notice to smokers and chewers requesting them to throw their stubs etc. in the stove. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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New York (152 Nassau St.) : Currier & Ives, [1854]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Notice to smokers and chewers. ... r requested .. the .. & ..., & ... throw their ... & ... the ..., or out at the ... Lettering on the print is punctuated with various pictures used to represent missing words. Solution: Gentlemen are requested to spit in the spittoon and not on the floor, and to throw their butts and stumps in the stove, or out at the window.

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Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt & Norman Petteway, "Human alphabets", in Amor librorum. Bibliographic and other essays ..., Amsterdam 1958, pp. 97-132 (p. 104; p. 108, fig. 57)

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Wellcome Collection 24866i

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