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Golden sheaf bitters

Description: Image of the goddess Columbia with an American flag, bald eagle, and liberty cap at the center of an advertisement for Golden Sheaf Bitters; sheaves of grain and blank banners for text at left and right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1866
Call number: priJLC_MED_004466
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 medicine prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Bitters S. S. Wyckoff & Co. New York

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for bitters sold by S. S. Wyckoff & Co. of New York, New York; allegorical woman figure wearing a liberty cap and holding laurel wreaths in each hand at center surrounded by books, ewers, sculpture, sheaves of grain, grapes, and a draped American flag; United States Capitol building in background; United States seal with eagle at bottom center.

priJLC_MED_002616

Memorial certificate. United States Centennial Exhibition

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Main Building and Memorial Hall at top right and left corners; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant flank the seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

priJLC_FAIR_001742

Centennial anniversary certificate. United States centennial celebration

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Agricultural Hall, Memorial Hall, Main Building, and Machinery Hall in each corner; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at left and right in decorative grapevine frame; seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.

priJLC_FAIR_001743

A. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. President of the United States. Assassinated April 14th 1865

Visual Materials

Image of a half-length portrait of United States president Abraham Lincoln; elaborate border made up of vignettes featuring a family and covered wagon, the Proclamation of Freedom, an African American family, two allegorical figures representing "Rebellion" and "Peace," and clasped hands over "The Union Forever" banner with wheat and cotton; Rebellion is holds a sword and tattered American flag while stepping on a many-headed dragon at bottom left; Peace holds a sheaf of grain and stands next to a Union shield and bald eagle with "E Pluribus Unum" banner.

priJLC_POL_003944

Schweizer alpenkraüter. Swiss alpine herbs bitters

Visual Materials

Image of an idyllic landscape in the Swiss Alps with a cabin and livestock next to a river at center in an advertisement for Swiss Alpine Herbs Bitters; description in German (top) and English (bottom); botanical decorative border.

priJLC_MED_004473

Deering twine binding harvesters at work on Cooper Bro's farm 27.000 acres. Cooperstown, D. T

Visual Materials

Image of a large group of farmers with horses and agricultural machinery working on the Cooper brothers' farm in Cooperstown, North Dakota, in an advertisement for Deering harvester machines; deer head with antlers in a large "G" with landscape backdrop at top center; sheaves of grain in circular frames in all four corners; decorative grain border.

priJLC_AGR_001779

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