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Tinsmith

Description: Image of a pair of tinsmiths working in a workshop; a salesman surrounded by kettles, pans, birdcages, and stoves shows a female customer a stove the storefront in background at right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1874
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002138
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: 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.

Shoemaker

Visual Materials

Image of a shoemaker working on a boot sitting on a bench surrounded by lasts and tools; a salesman assists a female customer with buying a pair of shoes in a storefront at left.

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Image of a tailor's workshop with several men and women working on cutting, sewing, and pressing garments; a salesman assists a male customer in a retail area full of bolts of cloth and boxes of sewing notions in background at left.

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The improved hot-blast Oriental with the siphon flue, the double base, and the improved mill grate

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Image of a four-fold leaflet advertising the improved hot-blast Oriental stove manufactured by Perry & Company of Albany, New York, and sold by Fawcett, Hawkes & Company of Boston, Massachusetts; cutaway diagram of the stove, ventilating platform, kettles, description and list of fairs the stove was awarded at in 1870 on recto; diagram of the stove and description on verso.

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The most successful and celebrated stove on earth. "Mansard Cook," of 1874

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Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising the Mansard Cook stove manufactured by Daniel E. Paris & Company of Troy, New York; vignette of stove in the home and three models of stoves with descriptions on recto; three models of stoves and descriptions on verso.

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The morning glory Littlefield's patent base burning coal stoves, and hot air furnaces

Visual Materials

Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising stoves manufactured by Littlefield Stove Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts; descriptions and image of a parlor furnace on recto; four models of stoves and furnaces pictured on verso, including the "Morning Glory of 1868."

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Richmond ranges and stoves cottage

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Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising stoves manufactured by Richmond Stove Company of Norwich, Connecticut, and sold by A.H. Jaquith of Gardiner, Massachusetts; descriptions and images of grates and a base burner on recto; eight model variations of stoves pictured on verso.

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