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Hell

Description: Image of a scene from Hell, with people writhing in agony and suffering various punishments; demons, snakes, lizards, and dragons attack people, dozens of souls are goaded down a slope by demons into a fiery pit; several demons with horns dance around the Devil in the background at center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885-1896
Call number: priJLC_REL_002907
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.

Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the only cool place in ---

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Image of a group of devils and demons in a fiery Hell gathered around a large wooden bar and soda fountain covered in icicles; the demons socialize while drinking glasses of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water.

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Kellar the great magician

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Image of a half-length portrait of American magician Harry Kellar, bald, in formal dress wearing a tuxedo with a red devil with horns on each shoulder.

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Brush : king of wizards : school of occidental and oriental magic

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Image of a full-length side portrait of American magician Edwin Brush waving a magician's wand over a cauldron with smoke and flames and surrounded by a red devil with a mustache, a smaller devil with horns, a lizard, a snake, a dragon, a scared black cat, a white rabbit, a duck, a black bird, bats, a witch flying on a broomstick outside an open window, and an owl sitting with a quill pen, a book, and candlestick.

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Hell-up to date

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Image of an advertisement for Hell Up to Date illustrated by Art Young featuring the Devil frying a sweating naked man in a frying pan.

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Carter the great : Carter beats the devil

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Image of American magician Charles Joseph Carter, known as Carter the Great, wearing a turban and tuxedo and showing a hand of playing cards with four aces to the audience while sitting at a green card table with a deck of cards and poker chips and playing poker with the devil who has two horns and mustache and displays four kings.

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Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

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Image of a series of vignettes advocating temperance; scenes illustrating the adverse effects of alcohol and tobacco are contrasted with scenes showing the benefits of a life without; train at center labeled "Gin Fiend" heads toward "Tobacco Land" with demons around it and the devil beckoning from a hole in the ground, torch in hand; images of angels interspersed throughout; allegorical women at left and right symbolizing "Truth" and "Temperance."

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