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Cadets of temperance. This is to certify

Description: Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; three young men hold a banner that reads, "No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider." and gesture towards a portico with their mother kneeling at their feet; ruined house at right in background; certificate text at bottom center; draped American flag and scrollwork oval frame with eagle and banner that reads, "Truth Virtue & Temperance" at bottom center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1872
Call number: priJLC_POL_002850
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Temperance association Frankford branch

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Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; a man is urged to sign a pledge of sobriety by his wife and child who stand with him; two men offer him the quill pen and document to sign at left; fountain and well-kept garden grounds outside window above the table at center; certificate text at bottom center.

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This is to certify that Charles M. Tainter has served as a Fireman in the city of Buffalo

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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the City of Buffalo made out in manuscript for Charles M. Tainter (presumably Charles M. Taintor) dated February 23, 1857, and signed by Mayor Frederick P. Stevens and City Clerk William H. Albro, with a top center vignette of a fireman standing in the center of a town square in Buffalo, New York, next to a woman and child, a man dressed in a costume similar to that of a Roman soldier with a robe, spear, sandals, and hat, and a kneeling woman writing a document that begins "Certificate of Disch[arge]", with firefighting equipment in the foreground including a hose, ladder, hat, rope, and speaking trumpet, and buildings, a statue, fire hydrant, lighthouse, steamboat, ship masts, and the shores of Lake Erie in the background and a flying angel with wings and a trumpet at top center obscuring a banner that reads "Buffalo Fire Department."; the certificate has a blue embossed seal of the City of Buffalo and a vignette at bottom center of firefighting equipment including preventers, censers, and ax.

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Oakland High School this certifies that Edward A. Ellsworth

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Image of the allegorical woman figure Eureka with bear, spear, and cornucopia at the top center of a diploma certificate from Oakland High School issued in 1886 to Edward A. Ellsworth; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds; City of Oakland Department of Education seal at bottom center.

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Robert Raikes. This certifies that Miss Sarah Scheirer

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Image of a Sunday school honor roll certificate issued to Miss Sarah J. Scheirer of Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, on January 22, 1883; bust-length portrait of Anglican layman Robert Raikes at top center; elaborate border made up of angels, plants, and 11 captioned vignettes from Raikes' life as a proponent of Sunday schools; bible with anchor and branches on top of a globe at bottom center.

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State of California

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Image of an American flag, cannons and ammunition, bugle, drum, rifles with bayonets, a sword, a soldier's pack with bedroll, and a banner with "NG" for the National Guard creating a border with oak branches and acorns for a National Guard of California-issued certificate; California seal with Minerva (Athena) and the California grizzly bear at bottom center.

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In the name, and by the authority, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth

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Image of a certificate issued to Peter Benson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authorizing him to the office of Auctioneer; "virtue, liberty and independence" insignia with horses, and eagle, and ships at center left; seal and manuscript text on verso.

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