"Nemesis": "These proud edifices have helped to rear that one! Your task is not yet completed".

Title

"Nemesis": "These proud edifices have helped to rear that one! Your task is not yet completed".

Subject

Newspaper Cartoon
Abortion
Madame Restell

Description

[Cartoon showing Puck pointing at New York Herald and Staatszeitung newspaper buildings and saying to large female figure "Nemesis": "These proud edifices have helped to rear that one! (Madame Restell's medical office building). Your task is not yet completed". Cartoon shows editorial opposition to newspapers which permit classified ads for female doctors, who cater to females ("Frauenärztin") and for lurid amusement personals]

Creator

Puck Magazine

Publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Date

1878

Type

Cartoon

Files

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Citation

Puck Magazine , “"Nemesis": "These proud edifices have helped to rear that one! Your task is not yet completed".,” Sovereign Body History Project , accessed April 28, 2024, https://sovereignbodyhistoryproject.omeka.net/items/show/7.