"An Apparatus By Means of Which Suicides Can Get the Better of the `Penal Code'."

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Title: "An Apparatus By Means of Which Suicides Can Get the Better of the `Penal Code'."
Creator: From the Collection: Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Contributor: From the Collection: Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896
From the Collection: Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
From the Collection: Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
From the Collection: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
From the Collection: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
From the Collection: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
From the Collection: Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886
From the Collection: Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935
Published / Created: 1883 February 7
Description: Puck (12:309), page 353, cover. By F. Graetz, man seated in wooden chair has connected himself to guns, cannon, knives, charcoal fire, 5000 lb. weight, poison, and dynamite. A note reads: "Dear George, I can not marry you. Carri." Text on page 2: "The luxury of suicide is forbidden under the new penal code...We regard this as rather an interference with the rights of the citizen. If a man wishes to throw his life away, he ought to be permitted to do so. Lives that are thus carelessly disposed of are rarely of much value to the world..." Hansen database #176.
Provenance: Gift of Bert Hansen in multiple accessions between 2015 and 2017.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Call Number

Ms Coll 67

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Container / Volume

Box 9, folder 1

Access: Public
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Citation: Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art. Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.