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How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer epidemics / Opper. – Vintage Photo Print

How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer epidemics / Opper., 1879 — antique engraving
How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer epidemics / Opper., 1879. Antique engraving from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ran this wood engraving by Frederick Burr Opper in its August 2, 1879 issue, presenting New York's street-cleaning efforts as a kind of public health campaign. The cartoon's title promises a look at how city authorities guard against summer epidemics, a real concern in the 1870s, when cholera and yellow fever outbreaks had pushed sanitation to the front of municipal debate. Opper, who would later become known for his comic drawings, uses the engraving's pointed humor to comment on the garbage and filth that accumulated in the city's poorer districts during hot months. The print offers a useful view of how the press framed urban sanitation for a general readership.

Created / published1879
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880.
NotesIllus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 48, (1879 Aug. 2), p. 372.
SubjectsStreet cleaning--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880. Slums--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,279 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-198683

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