Polygamy Brigham Young (1 results)

Post Card [9 cm x 14 cm] Divided back. Cancel and manuscript note: "What do you know about this." Photograph of a cartoon that was printed and sold by E. M. Smith & Co. that shows a row of pajama clad women sitting up in one long bed, some weeping. The headboard is labeled: 'Brigham Young's Bedstead.' At the foot of the bed is a row of infants in cribs, each is crib is numbered (541-550). "Later that 29, August 1877, Brigham Young died. While the Mormons mourned the loss of their leader, the press generally welcomed the event. Separately published, comic prints, from as far away as the British Isles, were sold at home and abroad." - p.45 'The Mormon Graphic Image.'.…