Visual Materials

St. Paul, Minn., January, 1888

Description: Image of an aerial cityscape view of the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Mississippi River; head-and-shoulders portraits of the five Board of Directors at top; map business key at bottom.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1888
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000522
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

St. Paul, Minn

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, from a bucolic hillside showing people in carriages overlooking the Mississippi River, a bridge, and the city; locations listed in bottom margin.

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Winona, Minn

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of the city of Winona, Minnesota, as seen from across Lake Winona, showing wilderness areas, a railroad bridge crossing into the city, and the cityscape in front of rolling hills in the distance; locations printed in margin.

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Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

Visual Materials

Image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits and sitting with their musical instruments on a curtained stage; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Z. W. Sprague at top centered with four corner vignettes of minstrel performers consisting of a man gesturing at top left, a man dancing at top right, a man in a hobo costume holding an umbrella and jumping at bottom right, and two men in hobo costumes playing a banjo and tambourine at bottom left.

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Al. G. Field Big Minstrels : Dan Quinlan the Chesterfield of modern minstrelsy

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel interlocutor Dan Quinlan; small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Al. G. Field at top right.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of the slave hunter character the lawyer Marks holding an umbrella and wearing a top hat and suit coat; head-and-shoulders portraits of United States President Abraham Lincoln and American novelist Harriett Beecher Stowe at top corners; the poster advertises a theatrical production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" adapted from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stow.

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M. F. Scott-Siddons

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of British actor Mary Frances Scott-Siddons wearing a dress, flower corsage, and necklace in an oval frame surrounded by fourteen vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of unidentified male and female performers in formal dress with an open book below and a small head-and-shoulders bust of William Shakespeare at top center.

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St. Paul, Minn., January, 1888

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