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[Two proofs of classical women with cherubs]

Description: Image of a proof sheet for two cards featuring women in outdoors Classical dress with cherubs; cherub with a lyre near a sleeping woman at left; two women bathing cherubs in a fountain and hanging them up with ribbon in a tree to dry.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1883
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002147
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.

[Proof sheet of five images with cherub children]

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Image of a proof sheet for five blank cards with small boy and girl cherub children at the seashore, in wedding attire, with a golf club, and seated in the driver's seat of a carriage.

priJLC_PRG_002050

[Proof of two portraits of women in embellished frames with roses]

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Image of a proof sheet for two bust-length portraits of young women in rose-adorned frames.

priJLC_PRG_002185

Schirmer's library of musical classics

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Image of an advertisement for Schirmer's library of musical classics featuring a woman standing playing a lyre.

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Lost, strayed or stolen

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Image of a baby in basket hanging on a post by a blue ribbon; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Lost, Strayed or Stolen" by J. Cheever Goodwin and Woolson Morse.

priJLC_ENT_000402

Up in the mountains of Colorado down on the Atlantic coast and out on the Pacific slope we hear the people all talking about the new line just opened up composed of the grand "Burlington Route C.B. & Q. R. R."

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Image of a poster advertising the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad with a central image of a winking owl with a medal listing the initials of three western railroads hanging by a ribbon around its neck, and a large-nosed laughing crescent moon on the owl's right in the sky; timetable in lower half of poster.

priJLC_TRAN_001108

La mode illustrée bureaux du journal. 56 rue Jacob, Paris toilettes de Mme. Breant-Castel. rue du 4 Septembre, 19

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Image of two women outdoors featuring current dress fashions; fashion details include long bustled skirts with tiered, pleated, and ruffled underskirts, gathers and draping, fitted bodices with puffed or flared sleeves and ruffled ribbon detail; accessories include gloves, parasols, and hat trimmed with flowers and ribbon; waterfall, trees, and urn with roses visible in background.

priJLC_FASH_002352

[Two proofs of classical women with cherubs]

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