The dance of death

The dance of death. Illustration shows, in a banner across the top, men and women dancing at a dance club or nightclub; the banner breaks at the center and the women fall into prostitution, separating the bottom of the cartoon into two halves. On the left, a woman with clawed feet holds up a Red Light lantern with a skull-shaped bulb in her left hand, and holds back dogs labeled Disease, Insanity, and Suicide with her right hand, behind her is The Potters Field cemetery; on the right are two business establishments that appear to serve as fronts for illicit activities, as a line of patrons file out of a Chinese Restaurant and into a waiting Police Patrol wagon. Date 1912 January 31. The dance of death. Illustration shows, in a banner across the top, men and women dancing at a dance club or nightclub; the banner breaks at the center and the women fall into prostitution, separating the bottom of the cartoon into two halves. On the left, a woman with clawed feet holds up a Red Light lantern with a skull-shaped bulb in her left hand, and holds back dogs labeled Disease, Insanity, and Suicide with her right hand, behind her is The Potters Field cemetery; on the right are two business establishments that appear to serve as fronts for illicit activities, as a line of patrons file out of a Chinese Restaurant and into a waiting Police Patrol wagon. Date 1912 January 31

Appear Breaks Bulb Clawed Establishments File Fronts Halves Illicit Insanity Labeled Patrons Potters Prostitution Puck Separating Serve Suicide

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