Photo of Puck,Beauties of Installment Plan,1883,Graetz,Commercialism,Discounts

Title: Beauties of the installment plan / F. Graetz.
Creator(s): Graetz, F. (Friedrich), ca. 1840-ca. 1913, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1883 September 12.
Summary: Print shows at center, a 'Profits' driven retail salesman who lets his merchandise go 'Cheap' and at a 'Bargain' through an 'Easy Payments' plan depicted in the jaws of a trap, with an 'Agreement', also depicted in the jaws of a trap, that states 'Goods forfeited if instalment [sic] not paid when due'. Vignettes surrounding the central figure show such merchandise as chairs, carpets, beds, 'the Baby-Carriage', a stove, sewing machine, and the dinner table, being 'carried off' for failure to pay on time.
Notes:
Title from item.
Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 340, (1883 September 12), centerfold.
2nd copy illus. from: Puck, v. 14, no. 340 (1883 September 12), centerfold.
Library has two copies, one bound in vol. 12 and the second copy in LOT 14014.
Copyright 1883 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
2nd copy forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Selling--1880-1890.
Merchants--1880-1890.
Commercialism--1880-1890.
Discounts--1880-1890.
Schedules (Time plans)--1880-1890.
Animal traps--1880-1890.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1880-1890.
Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1890.
Periodical illustrations--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2012645513/
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