"Beggin' your pardon, m'am, are you the new maid?"

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"Beggin' your pardon, m'am, are you the new maid?"
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"Beggin' your pardon, m'am, are you the new maid?"

Date1905
Illustration Citation"Gervie Zame, Gervie Door", by Jean Webster, in McClure's Magazine, September 1905
MediumCrayon on illustration board
Dimensions21 3/4 × 14 1/4 in. (55.2 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charlotte A. Ganz and Albert Harding Ganz, 1980
Object number1980-163
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Label TextCharlotte Harding captures a moment in a humorous story about how the arrival of a new maid disrupts the male servants of a wealthy household.
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Charlotte Harding
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Image Not Available for There were three questions I didn't even try to answer.
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Charlotte Harding
1904
Image Not Available for Officer Quack (new on the force): "Why do you wear that mask?" Stranger: "Why you chump, I'm a burglar." Officer Quack: "Oh -- I beg your pardon, I suppose that makes it alright!"
Officer Quack (new on the force): "Why do you wear that mask?" Stranger: "Why you chump, I'm a burglar." Officer Quack: "Oh -- I beg your pardon, I suppose that makes it alright!"
Walt Kuhn
c. 1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketch; single-breasted jacket and hat for groom design
Costume sketch; single-breasted jacket and hat for groom design
Charlotte Harding
1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketch; side view of groom design
Costume sketch; side view of groom design
Charlotte Harding
1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketch; single-breasted jacket design
Costume sketch; single-breasted jacket design
Charlotte Harding
1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketch; double-breasted coat design
Costume sketch; double-breasted coat design
Charlotte Harding
1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketch; double-breasted coat and top hat
Costume sketch; double-breasted coat and top hat
Charlotte Harding
1905
Image Not Available for Costume sketches; groom and coachman designs
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Charlotte Harding
1905
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Bookplate, Ex Libris Charlotte Adams Brown
Charlotte Harding
not dated
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Charlotte Harding
1928
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The July Century
Charlotte Harding
1901
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