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Western High School Baltimore

Description: Image of a blank diploma from Western High School in Baltimore, Maryland; elaborate frame border with portraits of influential women (including Martha Washington and Mary Washington), vignettes representing various school subjects, and a small eye-level view of the school building.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1852-1899
Call number: priJLC_EDU_001929
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.

Maryland : city of Baltimore

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of a waterfront scene, with boats and the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the distance, and people harvesting wheat in the foreground, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Maryland and two plant stalks.

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Salinas City High School this certifies that Elmer P. Alexander

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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 Salinas City High School issued in 1889 to Elmer P. Alexander; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds.

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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.

priJLC_EDU_001926

The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

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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.

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First Presbyterian Church : Baltimore, Md

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Image of an eye-level street view of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, with steeple, designed by architect Norris G. Starkweather, and showing a few surrounding buildings.

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Aetna Insurance Co

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Image of an eye-level view of a smoking Mount Aetna with buildings and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, in the foreground at the center of an advertisement for Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; elaborate decorative frame and border highlighting cash capital and losses paid.

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