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Pratt's clocks

Description: Image of an advertisement for clocks made by Daniel Pratt, Jr. of Reading, Massachusetts; image of clock retail store interior at center; elaborate botanical border with American bald eagle with Union shield at top center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1846
Call number: priJLC_HHD_002482
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 household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

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

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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.

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The celebrated oxygenated bitters a sure remedy for dyspepsia asthma, and general debility

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Image of a bust-length portrait of a man at the center of an advertisement for Celebrated Oxygenated Bitters; elaborate decorative border with eye at top center.

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Keystone stove polish

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Image of an advertisement for Keystone stove polish with "virtue liberty and independence" heraldry trademark at center and elaborate decorative border.

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The flags of the union

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Image of an assortment of American flags and pennants (with captions), including many related to the United States military; American bald eagle with "E pluribus unum!" banner standing on the Union shield at top center; olive branches in background.

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Nicholas Selkirk

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Image of a military certificate honoring Nicholas Selkirk recording his tour of duty with the 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry regiment during the American Civil War; account of his duty handwritten in ink at the center of a shield decorated by patriotic and military emblems and medals; American bald eagle on Union shield, American flags, laurel and oak branches surround shield.

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To the electors of the third district

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Image of a political broadside endorsing Amos Abbott of Andover, Massachusetts, for election to United States Congress; two cornucopias full of grain and produce with American flag and bald eagle at center; decorative border.

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