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This certifies that Sally Williams having paid…

Description: Image of a certificate issued to Sally Williams from the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; an angel with a trumpet and the Holy Bible flies over three vignettes, including people tormented by snakes in front of a cross with a building being destroyed by flood and fire in the background, a group of Native American Indians seated in a circle in front of tipis with a priest preaching to them, and three African people kneeling and reaching towards the sky with a hut and palm trees in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1851
Call number: priJLC_REL_002897
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.

Hell

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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.

priJLC_REL_002907

These certify that ___ was legally admitted a member of the Pilots' Charitable Society

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Image of a blank certificate certifying admittance to the Pilots' Charitable Society; seated motherly female figure in robes embracing three children among clouds at top center; boats and ships sailing with land and a lighthouse visible in the background.

priJLC_MAR_003313

Cadets of temperance. This is to certify

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Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; three young men hold a banner that reads, "No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider." and gesture towards a portico with their mother kneeling at their feet; ruined house at right in background; certificate text at bottom center; draped American flag and scrollwork oval frame with eagle and banner that reads, "Truth Virtue & Temperance" at bottom center.

priJLC_POL_002850

Saint Patrick

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Image of a bust-length portrait of Saint Patrick dressed in bishop's robes, crozier, and other regalia; vignette in background shows Saint Patrick in his credited role of banishing snakes from Ireland.

priJLC_REL_002910

Sultana

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Image of a label for Sultana brand fruit; man and woman wearing Indian ethnic costume in a bazaar-like setting with baskets overflowing with prunes; plum trees with laborers harvesting the fruit in background at left; oversized branch with fruit forms a frame at far left; "GW" monogram with twined snakes at far right.

priJLC_FOOD_FtVeg_001967

This is to certify that Edward C. Williams

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate with image of a soldier in full military uniform standing with rifle and bayonet in hand on a dirt road outside the fence of a large military encampment; ranks of soldiers on foot and on horseback, cannons, and rows of tents visible in camp; civilian man and woman in a two-wheeled horse-drawn cart in the foreground at left.

priJLC_MIL_001274

This certifies that Sally Williams having paid…

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