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Visual Materials
Gem stove polish
- Description
- Image of an advertisement for Gem Stove Polish with a monkey in a turban, livery coat and striped pants brushing a baby's stomach with stove blacking on top of a kitchen table; a horrified mother rushes into the kitchen in the background next to the lit stove.
- Date
- approximately 1853-1886
- Call number
- priJLC_HHD_001899
- 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 household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
