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The illustrated Lord’s prayer

Description: Image of the Lord's Prayer with small accompanying illustrations and different fonts to mimic the meaning of the text; elaborate oval decoartive border with roses and other flowers at top center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1875
Call number: priJLC_REL_002895
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.

[The Lord's prayer]

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Image of a decorative rendering of the Lord's Prayer surrounded by a highly ornate border.

priJLC_PRG_002085

Image of the Lord's Prayer in a graphic mix of fonts and styles interspersed with symbols, verses, and proverbs, including an eye, sheep, dove, beehive, Noah's ark, sun and moon, scales, arrows, coffin, skull and crossbones, and several others.

priJLC_REL_004584

Our Father which art in heaven…

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Image of the Lord's Prayer interspersed with illustrations of the text; YHWH in Hebrew surrounded by rays and worshipped by kneeling angels at top center; priest in a pulpit, the Eucharist; a debt collector at a home, a man shunning temptation offered by two others, a man cowering before a devil, and two angels with wings outstretched over "Amen" at center; elaborate decorative columns with carvings of Saints Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John at left and right.

priJLC_REL_002892

Salinas City High School this certifies that Elmer P. Alexander

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Image of the allegorical woman figure Eureka with bear, spear, and cornucopia at the top center of a diploma certificate from Salinas City High School issued in 1889 to Elmer P. Alexander; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds.

priJLC_EDU_001927

Oakland High School this certifies that Edward A. Ellsworth

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Image of the allegorical woman figure Eureka with bear, spear, and cornucopia at the top center of a diploma certificate from Oakland High School issued in 1886 to Edward A. Ellsworth; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds; City of Oakland Department of Education seal at bottom center.

priJLC_EDU_001926

The celebrated oxygenated bitters a sure remedy for dyspepsia asthma, and general debility

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Image of a bust-length portrait of a man at the center of an advertisement for Celebrated Oxygenated Bitters; elaborate decorative border with eye at top center.

priJLC_MED_002627

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