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How to make an ornament useful. A suggestion to the ladies

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Description: Image of the front page of The Daily Graphic newspaper of October 27, 1875, with illustration of a lady's servant sitting on her bustle after the manner of a servant on the back perch of a carriage.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 27 October 1875
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001640
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.

Established 1856 fashion plate 1878 Henry Arthur manufacturer of boot & shoe uppers

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Image of a variety of shoe, boot, and gaiter styles for men and women with name and number key text below each shoe style; vignettes to the left and right portray a woman seated in an armchair being helped into her button boots by a lady's maid, and a seated man putting on shoes with the help of an African American servant; image of Henry Arthur's business building and storefront at center of print advertising "leather & findings boot & shoe uppers."

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Autumn recreation

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Image of an eye-level view of a woman and man on bicycles riding down a park path in the center foreground, followed closely by a horse-drawn carriage with male and female passengers sitting in the driver's box and on the roof, with a lake and sailboats in the background.

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Mrs. Geo. S. Knight

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Image of American burlesque performer and actor Sophie Worrell Knight (Mrs. George S. Knight) wearing jewelry and a formal dress with bustle and ribbons, leaning on a stone wall with trees and a country cottage in the background.

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The heroism of the New York police by Theodore Roosevelt

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Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine October 1897 issue; a policeman on a bicycle reaches for the bridle of a galloping horse pulling a carriage on a city street; a child holds onto a woman on top of the carriage, who is pulling tightly on the horse's reins.

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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Winston's remarkable riding, juggling aerobatic seals most wonderful trained animal feature of the age

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Image of a collage of three images of a costumed male animal trainer in a circus ring with seals consisting of an image of four seals balancing balls while two of the seals ride on the backs of horses and one sits in a horse-drawn carriage, at right; an image of the trainer watching one seal complete a flip in a stop-motion-like view, at upper left; and an image of the trainer watching one seal balance a lamp on its nose while sitting on a ball while another seal balances a cross-shaped item on its nose, at lower left; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner.

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Oliver Twist

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Image of a central image a boy about to hit another boy who lies on the ground below him but is being held back by a maid in a kitchen area, while another servant looks on at the fighting, captioned “Oliver plucks up a spirit”; with a top-left vignette of a boy on his knees pleading before a magistrate while a group of lawyers look on, disinterested, captioned “Oliver escapes from the sweep”; and a bottom-right vignette of a young boy asking for more gruel from a male cook while other boys sitting on benches at a dining table look on fearfully, and a woman stands in background; the poster depicts scenes form “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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How to make an ornament useful. A suggestion to the ladies

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