Installment plan

Print shows at center, a “Profits” driven retail salesman who lets his merchandise go “Cheap” and at a “Bargain” through an “Easy Payments” plan depicted in the jaws of a trap. An “Agreement”is also depicted in the jaws of a trap, that states “Goods forfeited if instalment [sic] not paid when due”. Vignettes surrounding the central figure show such merchandise as chairs, carpets, beds, “the Baby-Carriage”, a stove, sewing machine, and the dinner table, being “carried off” for failure to pay on time.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-09-12

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913