Visual Materials

The monster serpent of Silver Lake

Description: Image of a crowds of people gathered on the shore of Silver Lake near Buffalo, New York, gawking at a large serpent-like monster rearing out of the lake; horse-drawn vehicle brings more onlookers at bottom left; photographer on shore next to a crowd at center; man offering lager beer from a barrel for sale outside a tent at bottom right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1853-1855
Call number: priJLC_SCI_004950
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: 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.

Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R

Visual Materials

Image of a broadside with promotional descriptions and timetables for the Lake Shore Route with a wood-engraved image in the upper center of two steam locomotive trains labeled "Lake Shore & Michn. Southn." and one with the number "317" on its firebox door, passing on tracks, with a waterscape view of boats, shoreline, lighthouse, and clouds with lightning in the background, and onlookers waving to the train in the lower right.

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Otsego Lake, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of a landscape view of Otsego Lake, New York; couple walking on a hill near a felled tree in foreground; boats sailing on the lake near a home along the shore at right.

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Caldwell, (Lake George.)

Visual Materials

Image of a landscape view of the village of Lake George, New York, (originally known as Caldwell) on the edge of the eponymous lake; small, rocky island in a lake surrounded by mountains; small building on the island and three men in a rowboat in foreground at left; buildings on the far shore of the lake in background.

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The Frontier Lake

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level landscape view of a lake with two men in a rowboat, trees, and a white house on the left shore in the foreground, and hills and a mountain in the distance.

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Jas. S Kirk & Comp’y, : soapmakers-perfumers-chemists

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for James S. Kirk & Company; four vignettes and views surround central view of boats in a harbor lined with factories: one of Native Americans in canoes on water, in upper left corner; one of a burning cityscape, in upper right corner; one of a woman with a Roman fasces, American flag, and bald eagle in the upper center; and one of the Chicago, Illinois, lake shore with boats in Lake Michigan, bottom half; front and back of a medal won the Cotton Centennial Exposition at center; six small images of card giveaway examples along the bottom showing children, war scenes, a waterfront, and pets.

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Design of the Washington : National Monument to be erected in the city of Washington

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of architect Robert Mills' design for the Washington National Monument with onlookers in the foreground, and the United States Capitol and the city of Washington, D.C., in the distance; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of President George Washington at bottom centered; blank contribution form and printed endorsement in the bottom margin with eight signatures of Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Daniel Webster, and others, printed in bottom margin.

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The monster serpent of Silver Lake

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