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Louis Prang. Library shears

Description: Image of a diagram of a pair of library shears for patent number "104996" invented by Louis Prang; signatures of witnesses, inventor, and seal from patent attorneys Munn & Co. below diagram.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002319
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.

Louis Prang. Library shears

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Image of a diagram of a pair of library shears for patent number "104996" invented by Louis Prang; signatures of witnesses, inventor, and patent attorneys Munn & Co. below diagram; letters patent certificate issued to lithographer Louis Prang for improvement in library shears affixed to verso.

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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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Be it known that Louis Prang, lithographer

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Image of a certificate issued to lithographer Louis Prang on April 23, 1884, in Boston, Massachusetts, certifying his admittance as a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; various symbolic emblems of the association surround the central text, including a muscled arm holding a hammer between balanced scales, Archimedes standing with drafting tools in hand, a beehive, a cornucopia, hooks an pulleys, and the prow of a ship waving a flag for "Massachusetts;" M.C.M.A. seal with motto "Be just and fear not," at bottom center.

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[Oil painting of Louis Prang]

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Image of a bust-length portrait of lithographer Louis Prang with a full gray beard.

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[Head and shoulders portrait of Louis Prang]

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Image of a bust-length portrait of lithographer Louis Prang with a full gray beard wearing a coat.

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United States patent office. Louis Prang, of Boston, Massachusetts. Letters patent no. 104,996, dated July 5, 1870

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Image of a letters patent certificate issued to lithographer Louis Prang for improvement in library shears, with specification of his invention and detailed descriptions of the various parts of the shears.

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Louis Prang. Library shears

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Louis Prang. Library shears

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United States patent office. Louis Prang, of Boston, Massachusetts. Letters patent no. 104,996, dated July 5, 1870