full front page politial cartoon showing "sanatation engineer" George E. Waring,Jr. sweeping through the accumulation of trash (Lies, snippin, envy, slander, etc. in 1895 Waring was brought to New York City, where sanitary conditions had become intolerable. Waring began by securing a law requiring horses and carts to be stabled overnight, instead of being left on the street.[13] He established a Street Cleaning Department, a white-uniformed corps of workers wearing pith helmets and pushing wheeled carts tasked with cleaning up city streets .[13] Waring's men cleared a shin-deep accumulation of waste across the city. Horse carcasses were removed from the streets and sold for glue; horse manure was sold for fertilizer. Size: 11" x 15.5. N° de ref. del artículo 120252

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Título: ENGRAVING:"Wasting Time on Waring)....

Editorial: Harper's Weekly, NY

Año de publicación: 1895

Encuadernación: Unbound

Ilustrador: W.A. Rogers (William Allen)

Condición: Very Good

Edición: 1st.

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