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 rest[aurant]" and into a waiting "police patrol" wagon. Date: 31 January 1912. Medium: photo, print. Collection: Library of Congress. Dance of Death cropped
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