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Date:: 1853
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 6, No. 23. In German, the text reads : --"So schwör ich, was geschrieben hat der Medakdek, hat er gesagt ganz vor mir: Du bist mein Tagsgedanke und mein Traum: ich denke immer an Dir Sahrchen!" --"Mach mir kahn Stuss, kahn Geschnuss! Was werste denken uf der Börsch, wannste kaafst Lombarden? Denkste an mir, waass Gott da werste beschummelt! --"Sey still, mein Herzche! Uf der Börsch u. in's Comtowahr denk ich ans Geschäftche." In English, the text reads : --"I swear, what the Medakdek wrote, he said before me whole : You are my daily thought and my dream: I always think of you, dear Sarah! --"Don't give me that rubbish, no stories! What do you think of when you're at the stock exchange, when you're buying shares? Do you think of me, God knows you would have been cheated!" --"Be quiet, my darling! At the Stock Exchange and in the accounts I think of business."

Date:: 1892, 1892, and 1892
Description:: Caricature by Charles Dana Gibson published in the December 22, 1892, edition of Life.

Date:: 1852
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 5, No. 33. In German, the text reads : --"Hersch! Wenn ich dich seh, is mer als wenn ich seh ne ganze Jagd. Hersch heisst de, in der Jägerstrasse wohnste, wie'n Fuchs siehste aus u. e Hund bist de." --"Wai mer! Bin ich e Hund, bin ich doch nicht dein Hünd, sonst wär ich ja en Schweinhünd." In English, the text reads : --"Hersch! When I see you, it's as if I see an entire hunt. Your name is Hersch, you live on Jäger Street, you look like a fox, and you are a dog." --"Woe is me! Even if I am a dog, I am still not your dog, then if I were, I'd be a son of a bitch." In German, the name "Hersch" sounds like the word for deer; "Jäger" means hunter.

Date:: 1897
Description:: Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in the October 1897 edition of Funny Pictures, published by the Judge Publishing Company. The text reads : --Mrs. Cohen (sternly): "Shakop und Ikey, ged your heads under cover! Here gomes dot gonductdor to dake ub mein ticket alretty."

Date:: 1854
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 7, No. 31. In German, the text reads : --Gerichtsvollzieher: "Herr Hirsch treten Sie ein, nehmen Sie das Ihnen zuerkannte Pferd in Empfang - Sie stehen sich von allen Gläubigern am Besten." --Hirsch: "Wai - was seh ich - der Gaul is capot, is das mei Deckung für 800 Thalersch?" --Stalljung: ""Das hab' ich mir glaich gedacht, dass das arme Thier krepiert wird sai - seit 4 Wochen konnt ich ihm kai Futter bringe - weil der Stall von Gerichtswegen versiegelt war." In English, the text reads : --Bailiff: "Enter, Mr. Hirsch, take in the horse you were awarded. You are the top of the list of creditors." --Hirsch: "Oh - what am I seeing - the horse is ruined, is this my cover for 800 thalers?" --Stable boy: "That's the same thought I had, that the poor animal will die - for four weeks I could bring him no food - because the stable was sealed by the court."

Date:: 1860-1869
Description:: Illustrated story Trauriges Resultat einer vernachlässigten Erziehung by Wilhelm Busch.

Date:: 1855
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 12. In German, the text reads : --Levi: "Wai - ich sterbe - ich hab jedem von Euch vermacht, 8000 Thaler, mein Sohn soll sie Euch auszahlen nach Jahresfrist." --Erben: "Warum erst nach Jahresfrist, Herr Levi?" --Levi: "Nu - bezahlt mir den Diskonto, so will ich's so ins Testament setzen, dass Ihr sie gleich kriegen könnt." In English, the text reads: --Levi: "Oh - I'm dying - I have bequeathed each of you 8000 Thaler, my son will disburse them to you after a year." --Heirs: "Why only after a year?" --Levi: "Nu - Pay off my discount for me, then I will put it in the will, that you all can receive it right away." Discounting is a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor in exchange for a charge or fee.

Date:: 1855
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 39. In German, the text reads : --"Denken Sie sich Herr Commerzienrath, da hab ich gestern und heute den ganzen Tag auf einem Wechsel gestanden, und hab nichts drauf gekriegt." --"Das macht, weil Sie nicht seind solid Baronsche, steh ich auf à Wechsel kriege Se überall was drauf." In English, the text reads : --"Do you think of yourself as a Commerzienrath, while I spent all day yesterday and today at the Exchange, and received nothing for it." --"That's due to the fact that you are not a baron, if I were to stand at the exchange, you would have received something from everywhere."

Date:: 1856
Description:: Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 9, No. 17. In German, the text reads : --Meyer: "Nun wie geht's?" --Moses: "Ach ich bin nur gesund." --Meyer: "Was willst du sagen mit deinem nur?" --Moses: "Was ich will sagen? Als ich hob nischt verdient, was thu ich mit der Gesundheit? Wär ich krank, hätt ich doch weniger Appetit." In English, the text reads : --Meyer: "Well how's it going?" --Moses: "Oh, I'm just healthy." --Meyer: "What are you trying to say with your 'just'? --Moses: "What am I trying to say? If I did not deserve it, what am I going to do with good health? If I were sick, I'd have less of an appetite."

Date:: 1859
Description:: Black-and-white lithograph entitled "business associates" depicting a group of men outside a storefront. Printed Berlin: W. Korn.

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