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Stockholm. Hans majestät Oscar I. Sweriges och Norges konung

Description: Image of an elevated view of Stockholm, Sweden; ships along docks at right; Stockholm cathedral and royal palace among buildings at center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1853-1856
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_004428
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Encampment of U. St. troops at Newport News, Va. 1861 & 1862

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Image of an aerial view of a military camp along the shore in Newport News, Virginia; rows of buildings with several American flags flying on flagpoles spread out over the shore; ships and rowboats sail to and from docks offshore, including a steamship lettered "Express" at pier at right.

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Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels : 40 performers 40

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Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from."

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Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va

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Image of a an elevated landscape view of Fort Monroe, the Hygeia Hotel, and the surrounding buildings, beaches, and docks on Old Point Comfort on the Virginia Peninsula in Hampton, Virginia, as seen from above the Chesapeake Bay, with tall-masted ships and the Adelaide steamboat in the water.

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Oscar F. Hodge Presents Neil O’Brien great American super-minstrels

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Image of a central image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel performer Neil O’Brien in formal dress, surrounded by an upper left image of a group portrait of an orchestra, with members in blackface, seated outdoors with their musical instruments and a plantation-style mansion in the background, and a lower right image of a group portrait of a male minstrel troupe in blackface posing next to blackface performers playing a dice game; with a sketch of an African American family dancing to banjo music in front of a rural cabin at lower left and a sketch of steamships coming into a port with cargo on the docks at upper right.

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Garden City hat : Packer, McDonald & Bliss : 149 & 151 Market St. Chicago

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Image of three scenes flanked by advertisement text and ship masts, a barrel, and anchor; bird's eye view of the bustling city of Chicago, Illinois, along the shore of Lake Michigan with docks, ships, and city buildings visible, bottom center; Native Americans on foot and on horseback with a rifle and spears look out over a lake and a settlement, top left; the city of Chicago engulfed in flames during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, top right.

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Parole Camp Annapolis, MD

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Image of an elevated view of Parole Camp in Annapolis, Maryland, during the American Civil War; Union soldiers at various duties outside rows of buildings and military tents; a large flag flies on a flagpole at center; train passing the camp at bottom right; nine buildings numbered with key printed in bottom margin.

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Stockholm. Hans majestät Oscar I. Sweriges och Norges konung

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