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The last supper

Description: Image of Jesus Christ presiding over the Last Supper at a long table with his apostles; pictured according to the caption (left to right) Judas, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Peter, John, the "Savior," Bartholemew, James the less, Thomas, James the greater, Phillip, and Thaddeus.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1835
Call number: priJLC_REL_002909
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.

The last supper

Visual Materials

Image of Jesus Christ presiding over the Last Supper at a long table with twelve apostles.

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Image of an advertisement for the Purdy Welch & Company Grand Mammoth Zoological Exhibition in the Troy Daily Whig newspaper of September 11, 1834, [page 4] featuring depictions of many wild animals, including pelicans, a zebra, jaguar, camel, gnu, and elephant; keepers are pictured inside cages with lions and hyenas with the caption, "The keeper will enter the cages with the Lions and Hyenas, at three o'clock. P.M." at bottom left; musicians of the Washington Military Band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pictured at bottom right.

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Custer's last fight

Visual Materials

Image of the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana during the Great Sioux War of 1876 between Plains Indian tribes and the United States Army 7th Cavalry Regiment under General George Custer; bodies of dead and wounded litter the ground while intense fighting continues with swords, guns, spear, and other weapons; Indians are pictured killing wounded soldiers or scalping bodies; more Indians on horseback race across the plains to join the battle in the background; military medal, bugle, sabers, and flags grouped in lower left margin; man on horseback near a monument in lower right margin; text key in bottom margin indicates figures such as "half breed" and "Cheyenne warrior" as well as specific U.S. soldiers, including General Custer.

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Who'll have the specie?

Visual Materials

Image of a political cartoon showing United States President Martin Van Buren pictured as a monkey next to an American flag and bags of 1,000 sovereigns thumbing his nose and holding his tail across the sea; his tail is just out of reach of British Lord Melbourne pictured as an English bulldog chained to a dog house that is flying an upside down Union Jack; French king Louis Philippe I is pictured as a rooster commenting on the scene in the background and standing on his own bag labeled "Indemnity" next to the French flag.

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[Portrait of Mary, Joseph & baby Jesus]

Visual Materials

Image of a half-length portrait of Saint Mary and Saint Joseph with the baby Jesus Christ.

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The Catalpa the rescuers and the rescued

Visual Materials

Image of the ship Catalpa, pictured in the midst of the rescue of the escaped Fenians off the coast of Australia with several ships in pursuit; portraits of the escaped Fenian men and their rescuers (Michael Harrington, Thomas Darragh, James McNally Wilson, John Breslin, Denis Duggan, John King, Thomas Desmond, Thomas Brennan, Captain George Smith Anthony, Thomas Hassett, Martin J. Hogan, and Robert Cranston); portraits, Irish clover and Celtic harps frame central ship image.

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