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This illustration, which was included in several different publications, contains a rich
amount of information. A canny street urchin out of Horatio Alger (whose first book,
Ragged Dick, appeared four years earlier) offers a doll for sale to a well-to-do middle-class
family in the center of the ruined downtown. The tipped-over safe whose door has been
ripped off, the relocation sign, and the backdrop of ruin and rubble establish a general
context of instability amid which the more respectable citizens are uncertainly reestablishing
their authority by buying back the city from such opportunists.
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Selling History 