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Dedication and sale of pews

Description: Image of a broadside advertising the new meeting house dedication and sale of pews for the First Precint of Middleborough, Massachusetts; text outlining dedication details and pew auction information with diagram of numbered pews and pulpit with the new pew owners' names handwritten in ink below; decorative border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1828-1829
Call number: priJLC_REL_002893
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.

Dr. Solon Osmond Richardson's jaundice bitters

Visual Materials

Image of a broadside advertisement for Dr. Solon Osmond Richardson's jaundice bitters with decorative border.

priJLC_MED_002615

To the electors of the third district

Visual Materials

Image of a political broadside endorsing Amos Abbott of Andover, Massachusetts, for election to United States Congress; two cornucopias full of grain and produce with American flag and bald eagle at center; decorative border.

priJLC_POL_002650

Newport & Wickford Railroad. : Summer arrangement --- commencing Monday, June 15, 1885

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Image of a broadside containing a summer timetable for the Newport & Wickford Railroad with a wood engraved image in the upper center of a steam locomotive train pulling up next to the Wickford, Rhode Island, railroad station with waiting passengers; decorative border.

priJLC_TRAN_001175

Clay township report, of volunteer bounty expenses

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Image of a broadside outlining the volunteer bounty expenses of Clay Township, Pennsylvania; receipts and expenditures are listed by the treasurer and certified by auditors in 1866.

priJLC_FIN_004286

Souhegan Man'f'g. Co. Milford, N.H. denims warranted indigo blue

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Image of a label for denim fabric manufactured by the Souhegan Man'f'g. Co. of Milford, New Hampshire, with blanks to be filled in with number and yards; botanical decorative accents and decorative border.

priJLC_FASH_003730

Diagram of the House of Representatives, Harrisburg, 1848

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Image of an elevated interior view of the House of Representatives for the State of Pennsylvania located in Harrisburg; elaborate decorative border with Pennsylvania state seal flanked by horses and flags, small vignettes representing a variety of commerce, early settlers and Native American residents of the state, and exterior of the building; numbered diagram with key detailing the members of the House of Representatives and their seats at center.

priJLC_POL_002651

Dedication and sale of pews

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