Visual Materials

[Man driving team of horses, another sitting in cart]

Description: Image of a man driving a team of five horses from horseback with a whip through a snowy landscape; a second man rides in a cart filled with hay behind the rider.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1860 and 1897
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002161
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.

[Reminiscences of an old man]

Visual Materials

Image of a symbolic landscape scene as viewed by an old man (bottom left) featuring a meadow near a stream with schoolchildren to represent childhood, lovers seated beneath a tree to represent youth, and a man driving a hay cart past livestock to represent adulthood.

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Shook & Collier’s "Lights o’ London"

Visual Materials

Image of an outdoor night scene of the English countryside in winter with a young man wearing pajamas on his knees before a man with a whip in a snowy field with an old woman looking on and a green wagon, barn, and snowy field in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Lights o' London" written by George R. Sims and performed by the company of Sheridan Shook and James Collier.

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The Chap-book : price five cents

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the Chap-book semimonthly periodical; a driver with large whip and top hat rides atop a carriage with a female passenger reading visible through the carriage window; bearded man in a bowler hat holding a sign in foreground at center.

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Outing for May

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for a May issue of Outing magazine; a team of horses pulls a party of men and women along a dirt road; driver with large whip and top hat rides with a woman beside him in the front seat with a blanket over their laps to protect from the dust; road curves back towards a house nestled among hills in background at left.

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Eskimo foot muff : trademark manufactured only at the Eskimo Muff Work's rear of Phillips Academy. Exeter, N.H

Visual Materials

Image of a stock advertisement for Eskimo Muff Work's foot muffs; a man wrapped in furs and wearing fur foot muffs holds a whip in one hand and rides on a sled pulled by dogs across a frozen landscape; a red fur foot muff is visible several feet away from the sled in the foreground.

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A man driving Electric Truck #33, showing the Otis Elevator Company and the W.J. Wilson Co

Visual Materials

A man driving Electric Truck #33, showing the Otis Elevator Company and the W.J. Wilson Co. (Cutters of Semi-Precious Stones) buildings directly behind.

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[Man driving team of horses, another sitting in cart]

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Eskimo foot muff : trademark manufactured only at the Eskimo Muff Work's rear of Phillips Academy. Exeter, N.H

A man driving Electric Truck #33, showing the Otis Elevator Company and the W.J. Wilson Co