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This certifies that John Nelles Young of Sacramento County

Description: Image of a certificate issued by the People's Grant Monument Association of Sacramento, California; portraits of Ulysses S. Grant as a young man in 1844 and older in 1879 flank center text; vignettes portraying Grant "going for ammunition at Monterey," at the surrender of "Appomattox," "receiving commission as Lieut[enant] General," on horseback in military uniform near rifles and cannons, and with his family form a frame with the California Capitol building at top center.
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Date: 1885
Call number: priJLC_POL_002661
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

The council of war

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Memorial certificate. United States Centennial Exhibition

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Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Main Building and Memorial Hall at top right and left corners; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant flank the seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

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Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley.

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The United States Centennial International Exhibition

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Cadets of temperance. This is to certify

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Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; three young men hold a banner that reads, "No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider." and gesture towards a portico with their mother kneeling at their feet; ruined house at right in background; certificate text at bottom center; draped American flag and scrollwork oval frame with eagle and banner that reads, "Truth Virtue & Temperance" at bottom center.

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This certifies that John Nelles Young of Sacramento County

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