Scientists Assert that all Diseases can be Prevented by Inoculation (1885)
"Virus from Thieving Office-Boy, Light-Fingered Scrub-Woman, Defaulting Bank Cashier, Receiver of Stolen Goods, Corruptible Janitor", "Lymph from Swindling Bank President, Embezzling Bank Clerk"
Title: Scientists assert that all diseases can be prevented by inoculation / Now friends step right up and be vaccinated for all forms of disease to which bank official are liable!
Creator(s): Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1885 June 24.
Summary: Illustration shows Puck standing on a stack of bound PUCK volumes between a row of people on the left identified as a "Bank President, Cashier, Teller, Clerk, [and] Janitor" as well as a scrub-woman and an office boy and a row of known criminals on the right identified as "Scott, O.L. Baldwin, F. Ward, J.D. Fish, H.W. Howgate, [and] Eno", and Fredericka Mandelbaum identified as "M".
Between the two rows are bottles of "Virus from Thieving Office-Boy, Light-Fingered Scrub-Woman, Defaulting Bank Cashier, Receiver of Stolen Goods, [and] Corruptible Janitor", "Lymph from Swindling Bank President [and] Embezzling Bank Clerk", and "Vaccine from Speculating Bank Teller".
O.L. Baldwin was a cashier at the Mechanics' National Bank in Newark, Henry W. Howgate (1834-1901) was a Disbursing Officer in the U.S. Signal Service, and Fredericka Mandelbaum was a known fence for stolen property.
Library of Congress: LC-DIG-ppmsca-28209