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Awarded at the Kansas City industrial Exposition

Description: Image of an exhibition building in the center of a large laurel wreath surrounded by vignettes depicting a farm animals, a large bridge, agricultural laborers in a field of grain, artists sculpting and painting, and workers in a smithy hammering on an anvil; Kansas City Industrial Exposition seal with beehive and year "1872" at bottom center; crest on a shield at top center with the mottos "United we stand, divided we fall," and "Salus populi supremalexesto MDCCCXX."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1872
Call number: priJLC_FAIR_001715
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Blacksmith

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Image of a blacksmith's shop with blacksmith at center hammering out horseshoes on an anvil while an adolescent boy stokes the fire with bellows at left; a man hammers horseshoes onto a horse in background at right.

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Awarded to Robert Crane by the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society

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Image of a certificate from the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society of California with three farming and labor vignettes depicting cattle in a field, smiths working at an anvil, and women and girls with fruit baskets harvesting in an orchard; arch of flowers, fruit, vegetables, and grain topped with an eagle on a globe makes a decorative border for the certificate text.

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Exposition souvenir

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Image of five vignettes featuring buildings and architectural details in an exposition souvenir print distributed as an art supplement to the October 5, 1899, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, presumably for the National Export Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September to December of 1899; a bald eagle with wings outstretched standing on a hammer and anvil is pictured at top center above the central framed image of a large columned building; a small vignette at bottom center portrays an exhibition scene with domed structures imitating the Far East, a Native American tipi, and people in ethnic costume riding camels and elephants.

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City of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania: Loan of the city of Philadelphia. Certificate No. 3944

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Image of a municipal loan certificate issued by the City of Philadelphia and made out in manuscript to Henry A. Snyder on September 5, 1878, with signatures of the president, cashier, and transfer officer of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank and the Philadelphia City Controller, future Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison; eight surrounding vignettes including a view of Independence Hall, and the adjacent Old City Hall building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at top center; head-and-shoulder portraits of George Washington, at upper left, Benjamin Franklin, at lower left, Henry Clay, at upper right, and William Penn, at lower right; and vignettes of a blacksmith standing before an anvil and hammer, at center left, and a young barefoot woman holding sheaves of grain above her head with a scythe behind her.

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H.C. Redington & Co. manufacturers of grain and grass scythes, Littleton, New Hampshire, near the White Mountains

Visual Materials

Image of a view of the building interior of H.C. Redington & Company, a grain and grass scythe manufacturer located in Littleton, New Hampshire; blacksmiths, furnaces, and other machinery visible throughout space; two children watch a pair of men working at an anvil in foreground.

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Deering twine binding harvesters at work on Cooper Bro's farm 27.000 acres. Cooperstown, D. T

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Image of a large group of farmers with horses and agricultural machinery working on the Cooper brothers' farm in Cooperstown, North Dakota, in an advertisement for Deering harvester machines; deer head with antlers in a large "G" with landscape backdrop at top center; sheaves of grain in circular frames in all four corners; decorative grain border.

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Awarded at the Kansas City industrial Exposition

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