Mandelbaum, Fredericka, 1818-1894

Peter B. Olney, New York District Attorney, passes a paper that states “Charges Against the Central Office Detectives – Peter B. Olney, Dist. Att’y” over the head of Fredericka Mandelbaum to Thomas Byrnes at “Police-Head-Quarters,” who in turn passes to Olney a paper that states “Denial of Charges – Insp’r. Byrnes.” In the background is a small building labeled “Mrs. Mandelbaum Receiver of Stolen Goods” on which a notice has been posted that states “Mortgage – To Cover Bail and Costs of Trial.” Caption: When “honest men” fall out, thieves have to suffer.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-08-12

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Uncle Sam, dressed as a policeman, stands on the U.S. side of a “‘Fence’ for American Defaulters” and stares at Fredericka Mandelbaum who is standing on the Canadian side, dressed as a Native American, wearing a headdress labeled “Canada” and leaning on the “Fence.” Behind her, a man carrying a case labeled “R. S. Scott” tips his hat, and in the background are mansions labeled “Mandelbaum, Eno, [and] Stewart.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-06-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

Puck stands on a stack of bound Puck volumes between a row of people on the left identified as a “Bank President, Cashier, Teller, Clerk, [and] Janitor” as well as a scrub-woman and an office boy, and a row of known criminals on the right identified as “Scott, O. L. Baldwin, F. Ward, J. D. Fish, H. W. Howgate, [and] Eno,” and Fredericka Mandelbaum identified as “M.” Between the two rows are bottles of “Virus from Thieving Office-Boy, Light-Fingered Scrub-Woman, Defaulting Bank Cashier, Receiver of Stolen Goods, [and] Corruptible Janitor,” “Lymph from Swindling Bank President [and] Embezzling Bank Clerk,” and “Vaccine from Speculating Bank Teller.” O. L. Baldwin was a cashier at the Mechanics’ National Bank in Newark, Henry W. Howgate (1834-1901) was a Disbursing Officer in the U. S. Signal Service, and Fredericka Mandelbaum was a known fence for stolen property. Caption: “Now, my friends, step right up and be vaccinated for all forms of disease to which bank officials are liable!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-06-24

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894