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Illustrated price list from C. Blunck. Christiana, Norway

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Description: Image of an illustrated price list for metal goods manufacturer C. Blunck of Norway distributed at the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; image of the manufactory building on front page of booklet; images of fire engines, pumps, faucets, fittings, and valves with descriptions and prices throughout; image of a "fountain of cast iron" on back page.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1876
Call number: priJLC_FAIR_001752
Creator: Last, Jay T

Malvin B. Shurtz & Co. general southern agents for "Eclipse" wind engines

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Image of a five-fold advertisement for Malvin B. Shurtz & Company of Baltimore, Maryland, sellers of stack tanks, wind engines, pumps, pipes, and mills; ten panels on recto and ten on verso advertise various products and models with images interspersed with text and prices.

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Illustrated price-list of Prang’s water colors, for children and for schools

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for L. Prang & Co.'s watercolor paints and portfolios of "outline pictures" for children, amateurs, and schools.

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Firemen's muster, Merrimack Square, Manchester, N.H. September 15th. 1859

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Manchester, New Hampshire, depicting a firemen’s muster with a large crowd of spectators and firefighters with hand-pump manual fire engines gathered around the pond in Merrimack Square; a fire hose competition is visible at back left with a stream of water being shot in the air from a fire hose next to a wooden measuring pole; being shot from a fire hose at back left as part of a contest; some of the fire engines have labels including “2”, “Excelsior 3 Bangor” “Protector No. 3” “Gen Worth” “Torrent” and some the firefighters wear belts with labels including “Deluge” “Protector” “Lawrence” “[So]uth Reading” and “Alert”; the buildings visible in the background have the signs “Books” “Shirt Manufactory” “Museum” “C. Spencer & [Son Hard]ware” “B.L. Bartlett” “Eating House” and “Rowle & Co.” and the church is labeled ““Bidwell Glunn’s[?] Company at 3 [? o’clock] 15”; the scene also includes trees, American flags, dogs, women in hoop skirts, and children.

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The Edmiston & Waddell Co., manufacturers... price list

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Image of a price list for the Edmiston & Waddell Company of Brooklyn, New York, with images of hay forks above a product list.

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O. S. Baldwin and Co. agents for the Metropolitan Manufactory : Clothing and Furnishing House

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Image of a broadside advertisement for O. S Baldwin and Company’s Metropolitan Manufactory Clothing and Furnishing House. Main image on the poster is of an opened trunk placed next to two carrying bags and a closed case.

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The Davidson fountain. : Fountain Square: Fifth Street, between Vine and Walnut

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Image of an eye-level close-up view of the Tyler Davidson Fountain at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, designed with allegorical figures; description of fountain printed in bottom margin.

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Illustrated price list from C. Blunck. Christiana, Norway

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