typists need apply

“I told him what I came for,
when he in a rage did fly,
‘No!’ he says, “You are a Paddy,
and no Irish need apply.’

Then I gets my dander rising
And I’d like to blacken his eye
To tell an Irish gentleman
‘No Irish Need Apply.’”

~ John F. Poole (1862), No Irish Need Apply

At the Boston Athenaeum








Public Libraries in Boston (above)

and Portland, Maine (below).







* link to typist news article in NYC