Visual Materials

Rock of Ages

Description: Image of a pair of women cast up on a rock with a cross in the ocean.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1875-1890
Call number: priJLC_REL_002902
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 view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. : For Peoria, Rock Island, Davenport, Iowa City, Des Moines

Visual Materials

Image of a poster with promotional text and timetable for the Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center wood-engraved image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad lines and a wood-engraved vignette in the lower part of the poster of a cross section of the "Palace Dining Car" showing the interior of the car with passengers eating and being served by African-American waiters.

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Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y. : For all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado

Visual Materials

Image of a poster with promotional text and timetable for the Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center wood engraved image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad lines and a wood engraved vignette in the lower part of the poster of a cross section of the "Palace Dining Car" showing the interior of the car with passengers eating and being served by African-American waiters.

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Views of the Profile Mountain and the Profile Rock, or the "old man of the mountain," at Franconia, New Hampshire, on two plates, with descriptive letterpress

Visual Materials

Image of a pair of views of Profile Mountain (or Cannon Mountain) at Franconia, New Hampshire, bound with letterpress descriptive text; mountain landscape view (plate 1) and profile views of the rock resembling "old man of the mountain" (plate 2).

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Gemini : a Sapolionic tale

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Image of a six-fold leaflet that forms a 14-page booklet advertising Sapolio soap; women pictured illustrating the uses of Sapolio (including a pair of African American women cleaning) on recto; comic with the twins Luck and Pluck on verso.

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Gemini : a Sapolionic tale

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Across the American continent via the great Rock Island route, from Australia, China and Japan to Europe

Visual Materials

Image of a map centered on the continents of North and South America showing the Great Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and related steamship lines to Europe and Asia, with a second map, above, of the railroad route from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, and mileage statistics printed in right margin; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, promotional descriptions and timetables of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, with a vignette of a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, and a vignette of the exterior of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago.

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