Colored print depicting a satirical seaside scene with various exhibits, including a pair of mermaids, two "tame whales" anchored to poles with nose-rings, a sea serpent, and a machine shooting bathers out of it like a cannon. Title printed in lower margin, followed by "Puck's Hint to the Hotel Keepers".
On verso are many advertisements and some short jokes, such as,
"In view of the fact that Barnum fooled so many people in this world, a Southern paper wonders what sort of a show he will have in the next. --N.Y. Com. Advertiser."
and
"One of the colored pupils at Hampton (Va.) Institute illustrated the opposite meaning of 'pro' and 'con' by giving as examples Progress and Congress. He had evidently been reading the proceedings of the present session. --Detroit Free Press."
