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Diploma awarded by Eastman's State and National Business College

Description: Image of a blank diploma from Eastman's State and National Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York; five main vignettes and decorative borders featuring mythical and allegorical figures, eagles, and a portrait of founder Harvey G. Eastman surround the central text.
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Date: ©1863
Call number: priJLC_EDU_001931
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 Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York

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Image of a diploma certificate from the Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York, featuring five agriculture and livestock related vignettes; men with horses, farmers pitching hay or plowing assisted by oxen, and a woman on a riverbank tending her cows and goat form a decorative border with scrolling vines, arches, and eagles.

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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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Diploma awarded by the Vermont State Agricultural Society to

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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.

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California State Board of Agriculture awards this diploma

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Image of a certificate from the California State Board of Agriculture with allegorical figures of women and cherubs forming a decorative border; men in robes with agricultural tools and plants flank an image of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, with flags and eagle at bottom center; farm fields, cabins, agricultural machinery, horses, livestock, and crops visible in background.

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The American youths' diploma

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Image of children ascending the steps of the allegorical "Hill of Science" encouraged by a female teacher at the center of a diploma issued to Mary Elizabeth Curtis in 1848; elaborate border with flowers, telescope, boy, girl, animals, and other images.

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Diploma : This is to certify that the trustees & faculty of Pulaski Academy

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Image of a group of allegorical women holding various symbolic items (laurel wreaths, hand scythe, hammer, sextant) at the top of a diploma from Pulaski Academy issued in 1871.

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Diploma awarded by Eastman's State and National Business College

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