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Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

Description
Image of center image plus four vignettes on fans featuring oversized produce in an advertisement for Rice's Seeds; four men of various nationalities, including an American, a man in a turban, and an African-American, all tugging on an oversized basket of fruit and vegetables at center; an elderly woman in a lace cap with her dog reacts with shock at a large "Hubbard Squash" in her house; two men in ancient Egyptian garb examine a huge "New Egyptian Beet" near columns; an oversized "Striped Gypsy Water Melon" (watermelon) is consumed by a group of men and women; two children carry a giant tomato between them in a field.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
1880-1881
Call number
priJLC_HORT_002461
Creator
Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Associated people
Baudot, L. (1878-1941.)
Coffin, Haskell, (1819-1889.)
Dewey, D. M. (1856-1930.)
Frauenberger, George F.
Goffart, J. L.
Hirschberg, Alice,
Kratzer, E.
Lockhart, W.
Lunzer, A.
Peters, G. W.
Rahn, Anton.
Wall, H. M.
Walton, J.
Associated organizations
Adolph Nolte & Co.
American Lithographic Co.
Beatty & Co., Lith.
Brett Lithographing Co.
C.F. Muntz & Co.
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Clay & Richmond.
Clay, Cosack & Co.
Cosack & Clark.
Cosack & Co.
Crump Label Co.
Currier & Ives.
Editorial Seix Barral.
Ensigns & Thayer.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company.
Kellogg & Comstock.
Krebs Lithographing Company.
Lehman & Bolton.
Lith. & Chromo Co.
Mensing & Stecher.
Richmond & Co.
Stecher Litho. Co.
Strobridge & Co. Lith.
W.F. Humphrey Press.
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