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Miami Commercial College : Dayton, Ohio. Established in 1860

Description: Image of an eye-level street scene centered on the Miami Commercial College building in Dayton, Ohio, with horse-drawn carriages and a trolley, pedestrians, and men on horseback in the foreground; a sign over the front door of the building reads, "Office / Firemens Ins. Co."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1881
Call number: priJLC_EDU_001341
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Ohio Female College, : College Hill, Hamilton Co. Ohio

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Ohio Female College campus in Cincinnati, Ohio, showing a street with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground, and the landscaped grounds with pond, rowboat, gazebos, fountain, and college buildings, in the background; information about the college printed in margin.

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Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels : 40 performers 40

Visual Materials

Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from."

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Female College. : Worcester, Mass

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Gothic-style buildings of the Ladies' Collegiate Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a tree-lined street with two horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians in the foreground; tinted background.

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Lawnfield. : Mentor, Ohio : The home of Garfield

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of a three-story Victorian house in Mentor, Ohio, of with a porch, lawn, trees, and a white picket fence, showing pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages on the dirt road out front. The house, known as Lawnfield, was home to United States President James Garfield from 1876 to 1881.

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Philadelphia : Girard - College

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Girard College campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with five buildings including Founder's Hall behind a fence, and a horse-drawn carriage and trolley, pedestrians, and an African-American man smoking a pipe while leaning against a pipe in the foreground.

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New terminal depot at Philadelphia Reading Railroad System. : R.J. Allen, Son & Company

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Image of an elevated street view of the eight-story Reading Terminal station of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and adjacent buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a busy street scene in the foreground with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, and street cars including one labeled "Philadelphia Traction Co"; flag on roof of building reads "Philadelphia and Reading R.R." in reverse; the next door building is labeled "1888."

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Miami Commercial College : Dayton, Ohio. Established in 1860

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