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Comic Valentine (slow suicide, anti-smoking)

Publisher McLoughlin Brothers American
ca. 1880
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: Comic Valentine (slow suicide, anti-smoking)
  • Artist: Charles J. Howard (American, active 19th century)
  • Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers (American, active 1859–1920)
  • Date: ca. 1880
  • Medium: Hand-colored wood engraving
  • Dimensions: 9 13/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25 × 19 cm)
  • Classifications: Ephemera, Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Jefferson R. Burdick Fund, 1976
  • Object Number: 1976.630.1.44
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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