The Vault at Pfaff's

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

How It Operates

HLS. "How It Operates." Vanity Fair, January 28, 1860, 69.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
illustration
Abstract

A patron at a restaurant orders an extravagant meal, but the waiter won't fill the request unless a speaker of the house has been voted in.