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Lecture! Scientific and practical!

Description: Image of a broadside with text advertising a lecture on telegraphing and electricity by Professor J.S. Ross; blank spaces for date, time, and venue to be filled in.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1850
Call number: priJLC_EDU_002966
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.

Prof. B. W. Putnam illustrated lecture on pottery

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Image of an advertisement for a lecture on pottery given by Professor Benjamin W. Putman; center portrait of the professor framed by an elaborate border of vases from a variety of time periods and cultures; vignettes of vases being made by a thrower and moulder at top left and right; lecture scene in bottom center.

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Cincinnati industrial exposition 1873 will be open from Sept. 3rd. to Oct. 4th. 1873

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Image of the exhibition buildings for the Industrial Exposition held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873, with a grid of 20 spaces below for advertisers and/or sponsors; two of the spaces are filled, one by "Duhme & Co. Silversmiths and Manufacturing Jewelers" and the other by "Steam Lithographic Printing House, Ehrgott & Krebs, Lithographers, Engravers, Printers, and Publishers."

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[Sheet of 12 rewards of merit]

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Image of a sheet of 12 rewards of merit, with scenes depicting ships at sea, landscapes, children learning from a tutor, livestock, women, George Washington, and other images; blank spaces to fill in who the award is "presented to" and the "instructer [sic]."

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Know thyself! Lectures on phrenology

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Image of a blank advertisement for phrenology lectures offered by Daniel Jerome Ager; phrenological diagram showing a man's head in profile with the cranial area illustrated with a variety of figures and symbols.

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Contracts, A-K by company or performer (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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The Schaefer's Opera House business correspondence, a subset within the Jay T. Last collection of entertainment prints and ephemera, contains records of the Schaefer's Opera House entertainment venue of Canton, Ohio, from approximately 1867 to 1890. Approximately 420 items are housed in 4 binders, and focus on venue booking agreements for various entertainment acts and productions, including commission percentages, dates, and other terms. The materials are predominantly correspondences, but ephemera such as reciepts and tickets are also included.

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Correspondence and general ephemera (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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Lecture! Scientific and practical!

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