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Porcineograph ... gehography [sic] of the United States

Description: Image of a pig and pork-themed map of the United States with an elaborate border of pigs for every state along with pork related food suggestions and the year of statehood; vignettes of pig-related legal proceedings in left and right bottom corners.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1876
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003440
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Associated people: Ackerman, James, (1815 or 1816-1864.); Baker, Geo. H. (1827-1906.); Crow, Franklin. (1809 or 1810-1878.); Forbes, E. (1830-1927.)

Nicknames of the states

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Image of an advertisement for Hill's hog ringers, triangular rings, calf and cow weaners, and stock markers sold by H.W. Hill & Co. of Decatur, Illinois; stylized map of the United States with nicknames and pig caricatures for each state; elaborate decorative border with pigs in costume holding back stage curtains; H.W. Hill & Co. logo at bottom center.

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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 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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J. Thompson's for the whole washing-compound and fancy soaps

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Image of an advertisement for J. Thompson's washing compound and soaps; woman in flowing robes seated on a large sphere of soap at center of an elaborate decorative frame with soap in one hand and a banner in the other; man and woman in top corners each using soap; interior and exterior views of J. Thompson's business building and store in bottom corners of image.

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Interior views of a modern first class pork packaging & canning establishment of the United States of America

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Image of a series of vignettes depicting interior views of a pork packing and canning factory showing workers in action throughout various departments of the factory.

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The presidents of the United States

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Image of a series of portraits of United States presidents from 1789-1921: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G. Harding; vignettes of Yosemite Valley in California, the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York; the White House in Washington, D.C., and St. John's River in Florida interspersed with portraits; bald eagle, Union shield, allegorical figures of women representing liberty (Columbia) and justice, and American flags frame portraits and vignettes.

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Porcineograph ... gehography [sic] of the United States

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