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.
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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Image of an advertisement for Paine's Furniture Company of Boston, Massachusetts; interior view of a home with a girl at center holding up one leg of a folding bed easily with one hand; wide floral decorative border.
Image of an advertisement for Binner Printing Company of Chicago, Illinois; a small child wearing only a headband rides on the back of a large swimming fish, holding a palm frond aloft on one hand and an artist's palette and brushes in the other; image of the Fisher Building on a busy commercial street corner in Chicago inset at top right.
Image of a woman in a long dress holding a flower seed packet leaning over a basket spilling over with blooming pansies in an advertisement for Rice's seeds.
Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine May 1895 issue; two women in flowing robes and winged sandals dance past a sundial holding a flower garland upraised.
