An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Ups and Downs of Faro in Washington

HLS. "The Ups and Downs of Faro in Washington." Vanity Fair, January 14, 1860, 40.
Type
magazine
Genre
illustration
Abstract

Bi-pictorial in which a Faro dealer laments the lack of a Speaker in the government, but after one is elected, all the politicians come throwing chips down on his table now that they've been paid.