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Singerman ID#supp1532

The Physiology of New York Boarding- Houses. With Illustrations on Wood, designed and drawn by the "Triangle," A. R. Waud, and the Author, and engraved by John Andrew ...

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Singerman ID#supp1532

Gunn, Thomas Butler. The Physiology of New York Boarding- Houses. With Illustrations on Wood, designed and drawn by the "Triangle," A. R. Waud, and the Author, and engraved by John Andrew ... New York: Mason Brothers, 1857. 300 p.

Notes

See the illustrations on p. 104 ("She is a large woman, with a full face, a hooky nose and speculative eye, like a Jewish version of Mrs. Trollope’s Widow Barnaby"), and p. 106 for Moses in the bulrushes "depicting a terrified Jew peddler between two rushing animals of the bovine species." Wright II:1046.