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Sultana

Description: Image of a label for Sultana brand fruit; man and woman wearing Indian ethnic costume in a bazaar-like setting with baskets overflowing with prunes; plum trees with laborers harvesting the fruit in background at left; oversized branch with fruit forms a frame at far left; "GW" monogram with twined snakes at far right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880-1890
Call number: priJLC_FOOD_FtVeg_001967
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.

Albany Army Relief Bazaar February 22nd, 1864

Visual Materials

Image of scenes from the Albany Army Relief Bazaar held in Albany, New York, in 1864; outdoor winter scene at center with pedestrians and horse drawn sleighs on the road outside the Bazaar building surrounded by interior scenes depicting international exhibits and onlookers; vignettes of soldiers in a hospital and wounded on a battlefield at left and right; sculptures and busts in border with captions.

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Compliments of A. M. Purdy, editor of Fruit Recorder & Cottage Gardener, Rochester, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of a basket with fruit overflowing onto a table, including grapes, apples, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries.

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Visual Materials

Image of a Queen Shenandoah brand fruit label for Martinsburg Fruit Exchange Incorporated of Martinsburg, West Virginia; a queen in blue robes wearing a circlet and sandals sits under an apple tree with an overflowing cornucopia of apples.

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Fanny Ross copper distilled whiskey

Visual Materials

Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a steamboat traveling along a river with "Fanny Ross" lettered on the side of the boat across the paddlewheel; image in circular embellished frame with monogram of the intertwined initials "C," "M," and "D Co." at left and right.

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Rossmoyne Groves

Visual Materials

Image of an orange grove flanked by hills with a mission and mountains in far background; Sunkist Oranges sunburst logo at lower left.

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The high sport hand made sour mash whiskey

Visual Materials

Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a wilderness scene showing a pair of frontiersmen fighting off a bear attack in a forest; one wounded hunter lies prone on the ground with a rifle in his hand while a large brown bear stands over him; the other man holds a hatchet in an upraised hand ready to strike; three hunting dogs snarl and lunge at the bear; image in circular embellished frame with monogram of the intertwined initials " "L," "L," and "& H" at left and right.

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