Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Hockheimer: "Ach! Mein Gott, Shakop, vy you vaste your dime ofer dot foolish pook--over dot crazy fool pusiness about dot palmistry. Dot vill nefer do you no goot votefer." --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Oh! Don't vorry, Fader--it maype gomes in handy some day." 2 --Mr. Hockheimer (after trying in vain for over an hour to fit customer with hat): "Vait, don't go, mein frendt; I see vot I gan do." 3 --Mr. Hockheimer (in anguish): "Oh! Shakop, mein sohn! Dish vas awful. I loose me a gustomer. Efery hat in der store ish too pig for his head. Vot vill I do me?" --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Calm yourself, Fader. I tries vot I gan do." 4 --"Goot morning, Mister. Oh! yes; dot hat vas entirely too pig. Say! Mister, did you effer hear apout dot science of palmistry, vot dells your fortune py der lines on your handt? Gif me your handt, I tells you." 5 --"You vas porn under a lucky planet. Your line of life vas goodt undt long, you vill live to old age." 6 --"Your power for knowledge is enormously developed. You vill become a prilliant man--a scholar, a statesman, perhaps der President. You vas a porn leader of men--like Napoleon." 7 --"You have great powers of concentration and determination--you vill succeed in votefer you underdakes." 8 --"Fader, you must have made some mistakes. Any of dese hats vill fit der great schentlemans. Give me a larger size. Goot." 9 --Mr. Hockheimer (falling on his son's neck): "Oh! mein sohn, der pride of mein life. I dakes you in bartnership tomorrow."
Caricature published in Judge depicting the merchandise of a store for four weather conditions : very dry and sultry; clear and warmer; cloudy and occasional showers; and cold wave with indications of snow.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : 1 --Abraham: "Ha! Vats dot?" --Levy: "I tink I make dot a berminent sign. He can't get around dot." 2 --Abraham: "Let me tink." --Levy: "Dot sign is berminent, you bet." 3 --Abraham: "I gits square on dot Levy." --Levy: "Dot's nice, don't it?" 4 --Abraham: "!!!" --Levy: "---"
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : 1 "Coom in, mein frendt, und dry on dis eleven-dollar suit. Id vill cost you noddings to do so." 2 "Dot suit vos made for you, mein frendt. Take id for nine dollars." 3 "Dere you are, my dear sir. Der Prindts of Wales couldn't be better suited." 4 "Donner and blitzen! Dot man's got a fit, und dot elegand suit vill be ruined." 5 "That was a happy thought. He won't bother me no more with his old clothes."
Caricature by Charles Jay Taylor published in the August 8, 1888, edition of Puck. The text reads : --Ben and Levi: "You can haf dose clodings sheap, und we treat you mit a drink und a cigar! --Workingman: "Bah! You've been using those old togs for a sign for over twenty-five years. I'm going down to Cleveland's Free-Wool Emporium!"
Caricature of Jews selling old clothes on Chatham Street in New York. From Pictures of New York life & character, published New York: G.W. Averell & Co.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 25. In German, the text reads : --"Ach so Männecken! Gut dass ick Ihnen treffe! Sie sind ja der famose Kleider-händler aus die Bolkerstrasse! Ick wollte grade zu Ihnen mir uff den Sommer ee-nen neuen Pariser Paletôt koofen! Da ick Ihnen nu treffe können Sie mich gleich den Ihrigten überlassen!!" In English, the text reads : --"Oh, mate! Good that I'm running into you! You're the famous clothing merchant from Bolker Street! I was just on my way to you, to buy myself a new Parisian overcoat for the summer! Now that I've run into, you can give me your own!!"
Hand-colored engraving of Jewish clothes merchants. Engraving after a drawing by Gustave de Galard. From Recueil des divers costumes des habitans de Bordeaux et des environs by Edmond Géraud, published Bordeaux: Lavigne jeune.
Caricature depicting the store of "Grabheimer the great American tailor." The text reads : "Vy Isaac! Dat is Mister Shones from Mobile, your prudder said you should gif Mister Shones a good pargain." Caricature printed by Tobin N.Y.
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