Puck, 1878-05-08 · page 15 of 16
Puck — May 8, 1878 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an advertising and announcements page from Puck magazine (page 15), not a satirical cartoon page. The page contains advertisements for various 1870s products and services: Friedrichshall Bitterwater (a digestive tonic), Dunlap & Co. gentlemen's hats, Nicoll the Tailor, and Continental Champagne. The main editorial content announces Puck's new "General Designing Office" employing artist Joseph Keppler to provide illustrations for theatrical productions and lithographic portraits. The magazine also promotes its 1878 Almanac (15 cents) and offers patent covers for filing back issues, along with information about obtaining back numbers of Puck. No political satire or caricature appears on this particular page—it functions as a business and service directory for the publication.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
PUCK. PUCK’S Pictorial Department SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Havinc completed all necessary arrangements, and in compliance with numerous requests, the publishers and proprietors of Puck take pleasure in announcing that they have opened a GENERAL DESIGNING OFFICE, where the services of the best artists in America, including those of the dis- tinguished cartoonist, Mr. JOSEPH KEPPLER, are employed in furnishing all kinds of Illustrations, in the most perfect style, on short notice, and at reason- able rates, The Theatrical Profession will find it to their especial advantage, in arranging for LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, to apply at this office, where Mr. Josep Keppcer is in personal charge of the department, Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13 N. WILLIAM ST.. Friedrichshall sBITTERWATER ‘THE ONLY PURE AND'RELIABLE, testable merits, Dose, one or two wineglassf appropriate for the spring ofthe ye BOUCHE FILS & CO., 37BoaverSt., NICOLL, The Tailor, any Bowery. NOTICE. No. 26 (issue of September sth, 1877) of * Puck” will be Vought at this office, No. 13 North William Street, at full price. NOTICE. The PU: -PICTURE—Supplement in No. 53, ssue of Mai th: SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, WHO DECIDES THE EUROPEAN QUESTION? TO WHICH POWER MUST ALL THINGS YIELD? has been published asa separate sheet, and is for sale by all newsdealers, and at the Puck office, at FIVE CENTS PER COPY. z 2 Champagne on Draught 10 Cts. a Glass.) ‘DMPORTERS AND MASUPACTURERS CP GENTLEMEN’ S HATS At 10 Barclay St., near Astor House, in front of Cable’s Hotel, during the Bathing Season. And at Coney Island, at our Champagne Pavillion on the Beach, cue FRASH -10 BARCLAY ST., N. Y. PUCK’S ALMANAC FOR 1878. The most remarkable ever published. CONTAINING:— . (But why should the contents be thus publicly exposed ?) PRICE, 15 CENTS. For Sale Everywhere. PATENT COVERS FOR FILING PUCK. PRICE $1!.00 EACH. FOR SALE AT “PUCK” OFFICE, 13 North William Street, New York. BACK NUMBERS OF PUCK CAN BE SUPPLIED ON DEMAND. ADDRESS, Willmer & Rogers News Co., 31 Beekman Street, New York. ‘OR, Publishers **Puck”” 13 North William Street, New York. comicbooks.com