Puck, 1878-06-26 · page 15 of 16
Puck — June 26, 1878 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and announcements page** from Puck magazine, not a political cartoon. The left side announces Puck's new "General Designing Office" employing cartoonist **Joseph Keppler** to provide illustrations and lithographic portraits for theatrical professionals and publications. The right side contains various commercial advertisements for 1870s New York businesses: hatters, haberdashers, printing ink manufacturers, photographers, dentists, and champagne sellers. There's also an advertisement for **Puck's Almanac for 1878**. The only notable visual element is a small illustration promoting "America Extra Dry" champagne, showing a classical female figure with wine bottles. The page functions as both self-promotion for Puck's services and revenue generation through paid advertisements rather than satirical content.
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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., NEW YORK. GENTLEMEN’ S HATS 174 Fifth Ave., 169 Broadway, Berwarx oad a 23rd Sreexrs, ‘Nea Comruaxpt Stexer, NEW YORK, HATTER. 102 NASSAU STREET. PACHTMANN & MOELICH, | otto stictz: New York Glass Letter Co., e 363 CANAL ST., N. Y., 61 BROADWAY fier great Bargain WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, STER- i ND. £ BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS Usen ow rts Parar Ant MANUPACTURED BY FRED'K H. LEVEY & CO., PRINTING INK MANUFACTURERS, 32 Beekman Street, NEW YORK. OTTO LEWIN, The well known Artist Photographer, 989 THIRD AVE., 8. E. Cor, 59th St,, 294 BOWERY, above Houston St. DENTAL OFFICE OF Philippine Dieffenbach - Truchsess, 162 West 23rd St, bet. 6thf& 7th Aves., N. Y. Lave 389 Canat Sezer. PUCK'S - ALMANAC FOR 1878. DIRECTIONS FOR ADJUSTING AND CEMENT ARE SHIPPED WITH EVERY ORDER. As the firm of Auc. MARSHALL & Co. manu- facture and sell Champagne, bearing a label which has been made to closely resemble ours, by using the word ‘American,’? while our brand is «¢ AMERICA’? Extra Dry, and we have been informed that this firm sells’and offers for sale their Champagne as our wine, we desire to notify ‘our customers and the public that it is an entirely different Champagne, and that we have no con- nection with that firm. We do not object to fair competition, but are opposed to an imitation of our brand, and the sale of an inferior article which @ would tend to injure the excellent repatation of our “AMERICA” Extra Dry. A. WERNER & CO., 308 Broadway, N.Y. CONTAINING: — (Bat 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, oR, Publishers “‘Puck” 13 North William Steet, New Yor. Willmer & Rogers News Co., 31 Beckman Street, New York. comicbooks.com