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The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come

Description: Image of a letters patent certificate "No. 104996" issued to lithographer Louis Prang certifying he "invented a new and useful improvement in library shears" dated July 5, 1870; goddess Columbia with American flag and bald eagle at the center of a scene featuring the industrial and agrarian sides of the United States; woman at left cards wool near a spinning wheel with machinery and an industrial city behind her; man at right holds a hand scythe and watches another farmer harvest a field with a horse team and machinery; official seal and ribbon at bottom left.
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Date: 1870
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002318
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The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come

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Image of an American bald eagle above the United States Patent Office in Washington, D.C., on a letters patent certificate "No. 55158" issued to lithographer Louis Prang certifying he "invented a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of caustic alkali" dated May 29, 1866; official seal and ribbon at bottom left.

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United States of America. No. 255,168 to all to whom these presents shall come:

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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Design. United States of America. No. 13,696 to all to whom these presents shall come:

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In remembrance of the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United States

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Image of the goddess Columbia seated with a laurel wreath in hand surrounded by American flags with an American eagle in the Union shield near her feet; portraits of the United States presidents from 1776-1876 and Revolutionary War generals curve around the central image of Columbia; an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 at top center with closer views of Independence Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and Faneuil Hall inset; contrasting vignettes of a Revolutionary War battlefield and a prosperous agrarian and industrial scene captioned "The Struggle for Liberty" and "Peace and Prosperity" at lower left and right.

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In remembrance of the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United States

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Centennial anniversary certificate. United States centennial celebration

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Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Agricultural Hall, Memorial Hall, Main Building, and Machinery Hall in each corner; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at left and right in decorative grapevine frame; seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

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