Visual Materials

Pacific Guano Co

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Description: Image of a five-fold advertisement for fertilizer manufactured by Pacific Guano Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and sold by H. A. Blake of Sutton, Vermont; advertising text and testimonials throughout; images of a fish, a mammoth skeleton, and an aquatic bird eating a fish while standing atop a bag of "Soluble Pacific Guano" on cover panels.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1882
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003712
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Ceres, trademark fertilizers

Visual Materials

Image of a bi-fold leaflet advertising fertilizers sold by Ceres Manufacturing Company of Baltimore, Maryland; text offers testimonials, solicits for agents, and describes products, including special wheat manure, raw bone fertilizer, and natural bird guano.

priJLC_AGR_003612

Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. Philadelphia

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Image of an elevated view of a factory building complex for Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; buildings visible along a waterfront with steam and sailing ships docking at the ports and locomotives transporting goods.

priJLC_AGR_000646

Snow bird and the water tiger and other American Indian tales

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Image of an advertisement for Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and Other American Indian Tales by Margaret Compton; two panels depict outsized Native American Indians interacting with a wild landscape; a large hand holds a fish above a forest with a deer and a bear near a stream at left; a large face with windswept hair peers over a rocky cliff face with a warrior at the mouth of a cave with skeleton apparitions inside at right.

priJLC_ART_003095

Herbert M. Rogers & Co.'s pure Newfoundland cod liver oil

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising Herbert M. Rogers & Co.'s pure Newfoundland cod liver oil for treating a variety of ailments, including consumption, debility, lung and throat diseases, scrofula, and rheumatism; glass bottle of cod liver oil at center; testimonials and statements to physicians and druggists.

priJLC_MED_004505

Sweet home soap J. L. Sarkin & Co. Buffalo, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of a five-fold leaflet advertising Sweet Home family soap manufactured by J. L. Sarkin & Co. of Buffalo, N.Y.; six panels illustrate the phases of a romantic relationship with a pair of anthropomorphized owls and frogs, including admiration, consummation, dissipation, desperation, reparation, and restoration; image of a pocket watch, retail information and testimonials on verso.

priJLC_HHD_003826

Standard Fertilizers

Visual Materials

Image of bags of fertilizer and barrels of crops "Grown With Standard Fertilizers" and "Grown Without" on a balance scale showing Standard Fertilizer to be the superior choice in an advertisement for Standard Fertilizer Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

priJLC_AGR_001790

Pacific Guano Co

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