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New York Excelsior Steam Cracker Bakery 96 Louisiana Av

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Description: Image of an advertisement for a variety of crackers, biscuits, snaps, cakes, pies, and turnovers from the New York Excelsior Steam Cracker Bakery of New York, New York, sold by agent William Taussig; image of the bakery building storefront with W.L. Wall & Co. Horse & Carriage next door; people outside along street; decorative border and scrolls with advertising text; woman as the goddess of liberty next to a bust sculpture of George Washington "to the memory of the year A.D. 1862" on verso.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1862
Call number: priJLC_FOOD_001996
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priJLC_FOOD_001997

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priJLC_FOOD_003795

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Image of a poster advertising the New York Elevated Railroad with a central image of an elevated view of a busy street scene in New York City showing a street corner lined with commercial buildings, pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, and elevated sidewalks, tracks, and railroad cars.

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Official drawing of the Louisiana Lottery Co. of Kansas City, Kansas... Tuesday, July 11, 1893

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Image of a leaflet, originally folded, advertising tickets for sale by E. Fox & Co. for the Louisiana State Lottery drawn on July 11th, 1893 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recto includes a chart listing the number of gifts and amount of money awarded in the drawing. Verso is two folded pages, printed in blue, the left page includes prize and date information for the Louisiana and Mexican Lotteries, and the right page includes information about drawings held January through June. Image on the left page includes a decorative title reading, “Nearly a million dollars distributed by us last year; this year we will distribute more than a million dollars in prizes.” Below the title is an image of a woman shown holding up a coin while surrounded by piles of coins and bundles of cash. The right page of the leaflet shows images of seven scrolls of paper with text about the drawings and months overlayed on the scrolls. The scrolls are all tied to one another with a string that is tied with two tassels. Decorative scrollwork is shown vertically across the scrolls of paper.

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Image of an eye-level cityscape view of New York City with people on the waterfront and ships in the foreground, in a shield motif, vignettes of the seal of New York, ship's cargo, and navigational equipment.

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New York Excelsior Steam Cracker Bakery 96 Louisiana Av

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