Title: "sheol"
abstract: illustration shows a number of historical figures enjoying the pleasant atmosphere of "sheol" after suffering the flames of hell; at left is a dejected devil sitting beneath a sign that states "this business is removed to sheol, opposite". Among those ferried across the river by "charon" are "hypatia, fanny elssler, voltaire, frederick [the] great, socrates, j. Offenbach, darwin, j. S. Mill, rousseau, george sand, galileo, jefferson, th. Paine, goethe, [and] h. Heine". Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: illus. From puck, v. 17, no. 429, (1885 may 27), centerfold.;j. Keppler.;caption: according to the new version of the old testament, many respectable people who have been writhing in the old fashioned hell will have to be transferred to the pleasant watering-place known as "sheol. " this is puck's notion of the evolution of hell to sheol.;copyright 1885 by keppler & schwarzmann.;title from item. Date: 1885.
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