Puck, 1878-07-10 · page 15 of 16
Puck — July 10, 1878 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** rather than satirical content. The page features multiple commercial advertisements typical of Puck magazine's revenue model, including: - Puck's own announcement of a new "General Designing Office" employing cartoonist Joseph Keppler for illustrations and lithographic portraits - Dogan Hatter (102 Nassau Street) - Dinada Co. (gentlemen's vests) - Devenoge & Co. Champagne - A bookstore advertisement - Nicoll the Tailor - A. Werner & Co. wine company - Puck's 1878 Almanac (15 cents) - Patent filing covers and back issue availability The page demonstrates how 19th-century humor magazines sustained themselves through advertising rather than subscription alone. No political satire or cartoon content is visible on this particular page.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
PUCK’S Pictorial Department SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Havine 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. Joseru Kerpuer is in personal charge of the department. Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13 N. WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. DAMTERS AND MANUPACTORERS CP GENTLEMEN’ HATTER. 174 Fifth Ave., ott) 41 Sonth William Street, New York. CENERAL ACENT. For Sale by all the Principal Wine Merchants and Grocers. THE PUREST CHAMPAGNE MPORTED IN THE U. Cheapest Book-Store in the World. 175672 NEW and OLD Standard WORKS in Every Department of Literature. Almost given away, Mammoth Catalogue free. Books tought. LEGGAT BROS, 3 BEEKMAN ST., Opp. Post Office, N. Y. JE UNLY HUUSE IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE HUNGARIAN WINES ARE SOLD, WHICH HAS BEEN AWARDED FOR “PURITY” AND “ SUPERIOR yar BY THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSIONERS, 1876. NICOLL, The Tailor, 139—149 Bowery. P, SUITS to ord No connection with any other Housein the United;States. ler. eaves OVERCOATS to order PUCK’S A L M A N A C has been made to closely resemble ours, by using the word ‘‘American,’? while our brand is FOR 1878. 6 AMERICA’? Extra Dry, and we have been [ informed that this firm sells and offers for sale ra Z > SAY their Champagne as our wine, we desire to notify THE MOST REMARKABLE our customers and the public that it is an entirely EVER PRINTED. different Champagne, and that we have no con- % J nection with that firm. We do not object to fair Conta: a ri) competition, but are opposed to an imitation of (Bat why should the content our brand, and the sale of an inferior article which be thus publicly exposed t) f would tend to injure the excellent reputation of our *AMERICA” Extra Dry. Price, 15 Cents. A. WERNER & CO., 808 Broadway, N. Y. FOR SALE EVEKYWHERE§ = —— —_—____ 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., oR, Publishers “Puck” 31 Beekman Street, 13 North William Street, New York. New York. comicbooks.com