PC-000-549

Gag postcard showing pig talking to butcher in front of slaughterhouse

 

1905

AH

 

This gag picture postcard has been printed as a complementary-color anaglyph for viewing with special glasses or filters for red and cyan. This makes the text hard to read without a filter, but the pig is saying, "Are you going to (meat) me at the place named?" to a butcher sharpening his knife. The building across the water from the pig and butcher is most likely supposed to represent a slaughterhouse. Presumably the card was meant to send to someone as an invitation or reminder to meet at a certain place, with the "meat" reference as a pun. The first anaglyph method of creating three-dimensional was invented in 1852 by Wilhelm Rollman in Leipzig, Germany. This postcard would not have been printed after 1907, because the back is "undivided," and postal regulations changed in that year to allow a back divided into sections for a message and the address.

Three-dimensional postcards; Anaglyphs; Gag postcards; Cartoons

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

 

[in top border in cyan and red, anaglyph]
Are you going to (meat) me at the place named?

 

Image

TIFF

20.92 MB