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Image of a proof sheet for four prints of Massachusetts scenes consisting of a view of the Charlestown harbor; a stone bridge next to a cottage in Newton picturesque paths; the town of Cambridge from the Charles River; and the birthplace of poet John Greenleaf Whittier in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the Louis Prang archive was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
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Image of an eye-level street view of a two-story Federal style house with fences and trees in Haverhill, Massachusetts, that was the birthplace of American missionary Harriet Newell (1793-1812); tinted background.
Image of a proof sheet for two landscape prints: a cottage with laundry on a clothesline out front, on a river with sailboats and a rowboat; and a cottage next to a wharf and sailboats.
Image of an aerial landscape view of the town of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, and surrounding hills, bisected by the Deerfield River; location key printed in bottom margin.
Image of a proof sheet for three landscape prints of the seacoast with sailboats in the ocean; a cottage on a river in winter; and a dirt road next to a river.
Image of a small barefoot boy in overalls standing on a rock in a stream inspired by the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier; a dirt path behind him leads past a stand of trees towards a house in the distance at left.