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This cartoon mocks class pretension during Prohibition (1920-1933). A well-dressed man at an elegant entrance mistakes a visitor for a tradesperson and offers to use the servants' entrance. The visitor corrects him: "I ain't no tradesperson, I'm th' bootlegger." The satire is sharp: despite Prohibition's legal ban on alcohol, bootleggers (illegal liquor suppliers) had become so economically and socially essential to wealthy households that they warranted front-door treatment—actually *above* tradespeople in the social hierarchy. The cartoon exposes how Prohibition inverted class values; respectable society now depended on criminals for basic luxuries, elevating bootleggers despite their illegality. The title "Noblesse" (French for nobility/upper class) underscores the irony: true "nobility" now belonged to those breaking the law, not those maintaining pretense.

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