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Cartoon of a boy smoking a pipe on a ledge, connected by tubes to flasks below, with a smaller child beside him.

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A black-and-white cartoon shows a boy seated on a ledge, smoking a long pipe whose stem runs down through tubing to a bellows and glass flask at the bottom. A smaller child sits beside him, connected by a second tube to a flask, suggesting a visual comparison of inherited traits. The work is titled Heredity and was made by William Steinigans in 1908.

Museum record: Library of Congress