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Beautiful Tea
Filed under Graphic Design, Random Strangeness
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Digging thru my database of images (yes, I have an image database) I came across this image (I have no idea where it came from). Click on the pic for the full image.
So I decided to Google “Lewis’s Beautiful Tea” and there was only 1 hit. it’s mentioned in an odd book, “Fritz Spiegl’s MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook”:
“This book represents a unique social history of medicine, in the form of turn-of-the-century music hall tunes poking fun at the medical practices of the day. The songs provide a fascinating insight into the role of medicine and quackery in the lives of our Victorian and Edwardian forebears.”
I can’t make this text any bigger ’cause it’s from one of those Google book previews, but if you can read it, it’s hysterical:
Posted by Leslie, December 10th, 2007