Wellcome Collection
A comic sketch of a manager of a penny show and various characters he is exhibiting. Reproduction of a wood engraving.
Unknown artist
Lettering: Manager of penny show: " Look here, 'Tildy, what have you shifted places for?" Adipose lady: " Why, boss, you said me and the nigger chief was al'ays a-quarrelling, and I wanted to prove that there was not nothing between us! See?"
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