For decency's sake!

For decency's sake!

Item Information

Title:
For decency's sake!
Description:
Illustration shows several reporters, for disreputable newspapers, such as "Reporter of the 'Daily Sewer'" and "Reporter for the 'Daily Garbage Barrel'", barred from entering a courthouse.
Artist:
Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
Name on Item:
F. Opper
Date:
June 3, 1885
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Cartoons (Commentary)
Lithographs
Magazine covers
Periodical illustrations
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Haynes to T. R. Roosevelt, 1877-1908. Cartoon & caricatures from Puck by: Gillam, Opper, Zimmerman & Graeter, 1880s (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Americana Collection
Subjects:
Journalists
Courthouses
Extent:
1 print : lithograph, color ; 13 1/2 x 10 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9880w877f
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
New York : Published by Keppler & Schwartzmann, office no. 21-23 Warren St.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Item from Puck magazine.
Caption on item: The reporters of incorrigible scandal-mongering journals must be kept out of the criminal courts, or we shall have to keep the newspapers out of our homes.
Accession #:
11_03_000074