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Horniman’s Pure Tea the Leaf Not Coloured

Description: Image of a view of the storefront of Horniman's Tea Warehouse in London, England, showing workers loading boxes of tea onto a horse-drawn cart; Chinese architectural frame around the view with a dragon and Chinese men and women in balconies dressed in traditional ethnic costume.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1852
Call number: priJLC_BEV_000670
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Treasure Japan tea : full value : the pure tea leaves

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Image of an advertisement for W. P. Hacker of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; exterior view of a four-story building housing china and glassware with storefront; men unloading boxes and barrels from horse-drawn cart.

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State Street, Albany, : 1805

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Image of an eye-level street view of State Street in Albany, New York, depicted in the early 19th century, from the top of a hill with two men sawing a log before a storefront with the sign "Chair Manufa[cturer]," a horse-drawn cart, houses, storefronts, and a church, with hills in the distance.

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Unprecedented triumph. We protect the people consequently they support us! Annual spring and summer opening of clothing and furnish'g goods

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Image of a storefront with a large crowd of people advertising for dry goods supplier Edward Steinfield in Rochester, New York; a large quantity of men and women, including Native American Indians, Chinese, laborers, aeronauts, and farmers rush toward the E. Steinfield store by various means of travel, including horse, carriage, cart, elephant, hot air balloon, train, and even ladder through the windows or on the roof.

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