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Adoniram Judson. Missionary to Burmah

Description: Image of a bust-length portrait of missionary and clergyman Adoniram Judson seated at a desk holding a quill pen in hand over an open volume; inkwell on desk; books and window with curtain in background at right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1846
Call number: priJLC_REL_004581
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.

Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States

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priJLC_POL_003941

Genl. Judson Killpatrick [sic]

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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick on horseback in military uniform raising his arm as his horse jumps over a fallen log; wooded area in background.

priJLC_MIL_000784

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priJLC_MIL_002397

Jim the penman

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Image of a central image of a man, presumably the forger Jim, sitting at a desk writing a letter with a quill pen, with a lamp, decanter, and ink well on the desk; the image is surrounded by envelopes including one addressed to "Louis Percival Hotel New York U.S.A" and another postmarked "London ... 85," with a box labeled "Drelincourt"; the poster advertises the melodrama "Jim the Penman" written by Charles Young.

priJLC_ENT_000311

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.

priJLC_ENT_001371

Zachary Taylor. Major General U.S. Army

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Image of a portrait of Major General Zachary Taylor in military uniform seated at a table inside a tent in a military camp writing out a dispatch with quill and ink; soldier on guard duty visible near rows of tents outside in background.

priJLC_MIL_003537

Adoniram Judson. Missionary to Burmah

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