19th century US cartoon contrasting a rich Jewish shop owner and a peddler

The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures. 

The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

19th century US cartoon contrasting a rich Jewish shop owner and a peddler 

overall: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) 

Cartoon of a stereotypical heayset, flashily dressed Jewish shopowner suspiciously watching an unkempt Jewish peddler dressed in rags walking down the street. The captions, set as poems, make fun of both, and point out how the rich Wholesaler does not recognize his old friend the Peddler. It was drawn by F.W. Opper for Puck, America's first humor magazine, published in New York in both English and German language versions. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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Illustration with poem captions depicting an Old Clothes Dealer, the rich Wholesaler does not recognize his old friend the Peddler front, bottom right corner, pencil : puck / 1882