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

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

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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.

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)

Wellcome Collection 24866i