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Maine Poultry Association, awarded to

Description: Image of a certificate from the Maine Poultry Association with elaborate decorative frame made up of images of many kinds of birds, including turkeys, chickens, ducks, and a peacock; woman tending the birds in front of a farmhouse at bottom center.
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Date: 1876
Call number: priJLC_AGR_001808
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
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Farm yard

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Image of a farmer and his children in a yard in front of a large barn surrounded by livestock, including ducks, chickens and turkeys; dog lies behind them in the entrance to the barn; worker standing on a cart of hay, holding a pitchfork in his hands inside the barn; the rears of two horses can be seen through the barn windows and side doorway; pigs in pen at right; cattle grazing at left; church steeple in background.

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Diploma awarded by the Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York

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Image of a diploma certificate from the Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York, featuring five agriculture and livestock related vignettes; men with horses, farmers pitching hay or plowing assisted by oxen, and a woman on a riverbank tending her cows and goat form a decorative border with scrolling vines, arches, and eagles.

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The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

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Image of a diploma certificate from the California State Agricultural Society with agricultural and industrial vignettes surrounding the certificate text in an elaborate decorative border; horses and livestock, farms and fields, steamboat and train transport, and "California State Agricultural Society Organized 1854" form border of certificate.

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Bradley his book

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Image of an advertisement for Bradley His Book magazine featuring a woman in draped Classical garb and a laurel wreath on her head stroking a peacock; decorative floral border.

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Italic print

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Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring an alphabet in italic print script surrounded by an elaborate frame made up of birds, two figures with herald trumpets, a hare, and a dog; offset image of alphabet and numbers with border of various birds and human faces on verso.

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Buckeye. Manufactured by the Richardson M'f'g. Company. Worcester, Mass

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Image of farmers guiding teams of horses with farming machinery through a field in an advertisement for the Buckeye mowing machine made by Richardson Manufacturing Company of Worcester, Massachusetts; farmhouse and farm laborer visible in background; decorative border of wood branches.

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