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Image contains 3 vignettes. The left vignette depicts a woman holding up a naked baby by its left foot. The center vignette depicts a four-story building with its right half fallen in and a seemingly undamaged two-story building next to it. The right vignette depicts a servant girl leaving a house with a trunk on her back and a Bible in her hand. Under each vignette is text further describing each scene. "Scene on Bush Street. Wreck of Building S. E. Corner of Third and Mission Streets. Scene on O'Farrell Street."--text, below image. Below the image is text describing the events of the earthquake that occurred on October 8th, 1865. This text continues onto the next page of the sheet. Paper color: buff.
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Visual Materials
Image of a Squirrel Hunter's honorable discharge certificate illustrated with a scene of a river bank with an older civilian with a pack holding a rifle, a squirrel on a tree branch, and an American flag laid over the ground; vignettes of bust-length portraits of Major General Irvin McDowell, in the upper left corner, and Ohio Governor David Tod, in the upper right corner; seal of the state of Ohio in the lower center.
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Image of nine vignettes portraying American Civil War battle scenes surrounding a moonlit evening scene of a man and woman embracing near two trees with a large snake on the ground nearby; goddess Columbia with American flag at top center; scene captions in bottom margin.
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"O. S. S-51 I. R. CO. 75M-2-27"--back cover, lower left corner, small type. Advertisement of Oceanic Line travel to the South Pacific with paragraphs describing on each destination: Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji and Australia.
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Visual Materials
Image of an eye-level landscape view of a waterfront scene with boats, and the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, in the distance, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of North Carolina, and vignettes of logging work and buildings, with busts of two signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Contains a series of familiar vignettes rendered as chalkboard pictures, white lines on black background, designed to be reproduced as a drawing exercise for children.
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