A catalogue of the first annual exhumation of the Society of Washington Fakirs : being a revised list of the titles and authors of the works of art shown
Art Students' League (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Event place:
Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Subject:
Society of Washington Fakirs (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Art Students' League (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Corcoran School of Art (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Physical description:
24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Humor
Exhbitions
Exhibitions
Caricatures and cartoons
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1904
20th century
Notes:
"In the mud room of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 11 to 13 [1904] .... Auction sale, Wednesday, April 13"--Cover.
The cover is signed: James H. Daugherty.
Cover stamped (jokingly) at bottom, as issued: Fumigated, Board of Health.
Advertisements for local businesses appear on pages [2]-[4] of the cover, and pages 1-3 and 22-24 of the text.
AAPGRB copy 39088019679265 has the original black-printed brown paper cover, stapled at the spine.
Contents:
Officious for the year -- Executive computers -- List of pictures in the mud room -- Our faculty -- The consternation and bum laws of the Society of Washington Fakirs Ltd. -- Personals -- Crustaceans abroad, or, odder to a lobster -- An awful tragedy entitled 'Willey Jimmy and the Cop' -- The Fakir's creed -- Song of the skeleton -- The life class -- Straight goods -- A pathetic ditty, dedicated to a lobster -- Leavings and left overs -- Cut 'em out
