Visual Materials

Engineering Society Iowa State Agricultural College. Ames, Iowa

Description: Image of a suspension bridge with a factory, instruments, machinery, and "Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering" banner in foreground at the top of a diploma issued in 1891 to John H. Moore from the Iowa State Agricultural College Engineering Society.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1891
Call number: priJLC_EDU_001928
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

Visual Materials

Image of a farm with livestock, farmhouse, barn, and farm workers on a diploma issued by the New York State Agricultural Society; sheaves of wheat, livestock, and farm scenes including a man with plow and horses, a man harvesting grain, workers pulling a wagon full of hay, and a woman watering flowers form a border.

priJLC_AGR_001796

Diploma awarded by the Vermont State Agricultural Society to

Visual Materials

Image of a diploma certificate from the Vermont State Agricultural Society illustrated with several vignettes featuring horses, dogs, and livestock, farming and industrial workers and tools, and women representing harvest bounty.

priJLC_AGR_001807

The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

Visual Materials

Image of a diploma certificate from the California State Agricultural Society with agricultural and industrial vignettes surrounding the certificate text in an elaborate decorative border; horses and livestock, farms and fields, steamboat and train transport, and "California State Agricultural Society Organized 1854" form border of certificate.

priJLC_AGR_001806

Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co. union brace

Visual Materials

Image of a large suspension bridge with suspension cables made of suspenders; sailboats and steamboats visible on the water below; industrial buildings visible on shore in foreground; lion holding flag with "N" for Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company with motto, "Trade mark. Labor omnia vincit." in embellished frames at left and right of image.

priJLC_FASH_002959

Worthington & Warner's commercial college

Visual Materials

Image of an allegorical seated woman offering a male graduate a laurel wreath near farmers and other tradesmen and women at the top of a diploma from Worthington & Warner's Commercial College of Concord, New Hampshire, issued in 1865.

priJLC_EDU_001924

Fulton Worsted Mills. Oswego Falls, N.Y. Rebuilt 1891. Charles Fletcher proprietor

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated panoramic view of the Fulton Worsted Mills factory complex of buildings in Fulton, New York; a bridge over Oswego River near Oswego Falls is visible in the foreground; housing pictured at right and the city in the background.

priJLC_FASH_000617

Engineering Society Iowa State Agricultural College. Ames, Iowa

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

Diploma awarded by the Vermont State Agricultural Society to

The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co. union brace

Worthington & Warner's commercial college

Fulton Worsted Mills. Oswego Falls, N.Y. Rebuilt 1891. Charles Fletcher proprietor