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Descriptive catalogue of James W. Tufts' arctic soda-water apparatus

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  • Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

    Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

    Visual Materials

    Image of an outdoor scene of a tropical oasis with caricatures of several poor and sick men and women arriving to partake of Tuft's Arctic Soda Water at a large wooden bar and soda fountain; specific caricatures include a costumed monkey waiter serving a man in a hammock, a wounded soldier on crutches, an elderly woman pushing an old man in a wheelbarrow, an African-American woman, a hobo holding a carpetbag, and a bartender wearing a red vest and boater hat; a beach shore is visible in the background with recuperated individuals, palm trees, shrubs, and a sailboat and a small canoe.

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  • Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

    Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

    Visual Materials

    Image of an outdoor scene of a tropical oasis with caricatures of several poor and sick men and women arriving to partake of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water at a large wooden bar and soda fountain; specific caricatures include a costumed monkey waiter serving a man in a hammock, a wounded soldier on crutches, an elderly woman pushing an old man in a wheelbarrow, an African-American woman, a hobo holding a carpetbag, and a bartender wearing a red vest and boater hat; a beach shore is visible in the background with recuperated individuals, palm trees, shrubs, and a sailboat and a small canoe.

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  • Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the only cool place in ---

    Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the only cool place in ---

    Visual Materials

    Image of a group of devils and demons in a fiery Hell gathered around a large wooden bar and soda fountain covered in icicles; the demons socialize while drinking glasses of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water.

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  • Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: cooling off the sun and its children

    Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: cooling off the sun and its children

    Visual Materials

    Image of an outdoor scene of an anthropomorphized sun on a man's body in a suit holding a fan; a polar bear offers him a glass of soda water from a large wooden bar and soda fountain covered in icicles; caricatures of men and women in native garb dancing and celebrating in an African village also partake of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water.

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    James W. Waters deeds

    Manuscripts

    Deeds related to John W. Waters, including a chattel mortgage between E.S. Nisbet and Joseph Brown and Waters (1872), a deed between John P. Hight and Waters and Harrison Bernis for land in San Bernardino and branded cattle (1874), a deed between Antonio Salazar and Waters for land in San Bernardino (1876), and a deed between W.E.W. Lightfoot and Waters for the Grape Vine Ranch, Mojave River, San Bernardino (1877).

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