Friday, July 8, 2022

A tea cartoon … from 1828


My latest find from the Library of Congress website is this 1828 cartoon captioned “Woman Dropping Her Tea-cup in Horror upon Discovering the Monstrous Contents of a Magnified Drop of Thames Water Revealing the Impurity of London Drinking Water.”

If I thought my tea contained all that, I’d drop my teacup too!

4 comments:

  1. That's a great cartoon! But at least if the tea had been made with boiled water, lots of those "monsters" in the water would have been destroyed.

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  2. I remember looking at tap water under a microscope when I was in elementary school.

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  3. Now that is funny!

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