How to keep a girl
Print shows a vignette cartoon with 12 vignettes around a central figure, showing how the employer should treat her woman domestic, if she wants to keep her. Vignettes include 1) “Promise her anything and everything,” 2) “Give her the best bed in the house,” 5) “When dinner is ready – wait on her,” 6) turn a blind eye toward thievery and to 9) “packages and bundles carried out by relatives,” as well as 7) turn a deaf ear to her rants, and 12) “Raise her wages higher each month.” The center vignette, numbered “13,” shows a woman holding keys as her domestic help stands next to a stove, and suggests another option, “Take Matters into Your Own Hands and Keep Her in Her Place.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-12-05