Object Details
- Crowdsourcing
- Transcribed by Smithsonian digital volunteers
- Description
- [[obverse text]]
- 50 / GATERSLEBEN / 50 / VON DORT WO FRÜHER / KONNT' MAN BADEN / ZIEHT'S HER IN DIK- / KEN BLAUEN SCHWA- / DEN. / ES BRENNT DIE SEE! / DER TORF FING FEUER / UND DER GESTANK - / WAR UNGEHEUER. / UNGÜLTIG / 3 MONATE NACH / ÖFFENTL.[[öffentlicher]] AUFKÜNDIGUNG. / GATERSLEBEN / DEN 30.7.1921. / DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND= / [[signature]]. / DER „SEE“ BRAND VON 1911 / LOUIS KOCH – HALBERSTADT. [[translation]] 50 / GATERSLEBEN / 50 / FROM THERE, WHERE PREVIOUSLY IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BATHE, IT DRAWS NEAR IN THICK BLUE VAPORS. / THE SEA IS BURNING! / THE PEAT CAUGHT FIRE AND THE STENCH - WAS MONSTROUS. / INVALID 3 MONTHS AFTER PUBLIC NOTICE OF TERMINATION. / GATERSLEBEN, THE 30.7.1921.[[d.m.y.]] / THE COMMUNITY BOARD= [[signature]]. / THE ”SEA“ FIRE OF 1911 / LOUIS KOCH – HALBERSTADT. [[/translation]]
- [[reverse text]]
- 4. HAUPTSCHIEBER VOLLBAUCH- PROTZIG- DICKE / ER WARD DAS OPFER IHRER TÜCKE; / DENN IN DER KURVE AN DER TANNE / [[within illustration]] 4 / VORSICHT [[/within illustration]] / ERLITT SEIN AUTO VOLLSTE PANNE. / IHR STEINBERG BRACH DEN PNEUMATIK / DAS TÖFF-TÖFF-VIEH - UND SCHIEBERGLÜCK. / 50 [[translation]] 4. MAIN-VALVE FULL-BELLY- SHOWY- THICK / HE WAS THE VICTIM OF THEIR DECEIT; / FOR IN THE BEND AT THE FIR TREE / [[within illustration]] 4 / CAUTION [[/within illustration]] / HIS CAR INCURRED A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN. / THEIR/HIS STEINBERG BROKE THE PNEUMATICS, THE TÖFF-TÖFF [[=choo-choo, motorcycle, sound of car horn]]-“BRUTE” - AND “PROFITEER”-LUCK. / 50 / [[/translation]]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1921
- date on object
- 1921-07-30
- Credit Line
- Morton M. Stack
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.3 cm x 8.7 cm x .01 cm; 2 3/32 in x 3 7/16 in x in
- Object Name
- note
- notgeld
