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In dem im hohen Alter von 85 Jahren in Los Angeles verstorbenen aus Breslau gebürtigen Louis Prang

Description: Image of a certificate issued October 5, 1909, by a German association ("Zentral Verbandes") in Boston, Massachusetts, expressing their mourning over the death of lithographer Louis Prang, who was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland); five signatures at bottom right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1909
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002326
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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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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Series II. Manuscripts, business records, and photographs

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This series contains approximately 160 items related to Louis Prang's personal and business dealings. Letters, receipts, business records, letters patent certificates, memo and stock books, and a small number of photographs are included. Notable items include a certificate from a German association in Boston, Massachusetts, expressing their mourning over the death of lithographer Louis Prang (priJLC_PRG_002326), an L. Prang & Co. stock book full of handwritten notes and lists (Box 5, with photocopy of contents), a June 15, 1870, letter to Louis Prang from artist Albert Bierstadt praising the reproduction of his painting Sunset, and a series of letters from 1896-1898 in which Louis Prang writes to Max Levy regarding screen printing (Binder 10).

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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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[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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In dem im hohen Alter von 85 Jahren in Los Angeles verstorbenen aus Breslau gebürtigen Louis Prang

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