The comic image depicts a bald man [Old Foozle] in a dressing gown seated on a stool at a window; he is looking through a telescope at two comets in the sky; one comet is labeled "Canal Bank" and the other "Watervliet." A second man [Showman Peter], mustachioed and dressed in a suit and broad-brimmed hat, stands behind the seated figure. On the wall of the room, hung upside down, is a framed picture of a building with the caption: Dudly Observatory.
Alternative Title:
All-cut-come-it, Dudly Observatory., and Now Mein Herr, you shust keep your eye mit der glass ...
Description:
Image is signed: "Snooks" delt., Pun on the phrase "All-cut-come-it" refers to a banker involved in the dispute, Theodore Olcott; hence, Olcott Comet., and Subject relates to a dispute between two New York banks, the Canal Bank and the Watervliet Bank.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 391
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN copy 1: Foxed with fading. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., BEIN copy 2: Foxed. On sheet 21 x 26 cm., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and Relief shown pictorially.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
c1852.
Call Number:
WA Prints +445
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
General view of Sonora showing mining encampment
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +445: Four buildings numbered in manuscript with manuscript legend to the right of title., Title from caption., and Drawn by G.H. Goddard.
Publisher:
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by G.H. Goddard in the clerks office of the dist. court of the Northern Dist. of Calafornia [sic] and Pollard & Brittons lith., Merchant Str
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 432
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 432 copy 1: On sheet: 23 x 28 cm., BEIN WA Prints 432 copy 2: Imperfect: Foxed, with some fading. On sheet: 21 x 27 cm., Relief shown pictorially., and Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.
Goddard, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1906, artist
Published / Created:
May 1853.
Call Number:
WA Prints 432
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 432 copy 1: On sheet: 23 x 28 cm., BEIN WA Prints 432 copy 2: Imperfect: Foxed, with some fading. On sheet: 21 x 27 cm., Relief shown pictorially., and Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.