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Assignee's sale of valuable real estate and pers'l property!

Description: Image of a broadside advertising the auction of a farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, including land, buildings, livestock, agricultural machinery and implements, grain, and produce; images of barn and farmhouse, a cow, horse being led by a man, and pigs, surrounded by advertisement text.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1877
Call number: priJLC_FIN_004292
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.

St. Lawrence County. Agricultural Society

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Image of a woman with a bouquet of flowers and a man holding a scythe flanking a statue of a woman in flowing garments representing bounty and harvest on a certificate issued by the St. Lawrence County Agricultural Society of New York; farm fields, workers, farming implements, livestock, barn, farmhouse, grain, and produce surrounding farmers and in background.

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The Worcester Agricultural Society

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Image of a deer with antlers in an oval frame in the center of a certificate issued by the Worcester Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farming implements on the ground in a field surrounding the deer; trees, farmhouse and barn in background; seal of the County of Worcester, Massachusetts, with cow in center at bottom left.

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Farm yard

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Image of a farmer and his children in a yard in front of a large barn surrounded by livestock, including ducks, chickens and turkeys; dog lies behind them in the entrance to the barn; worker standing on a cart of hay, holding a pitchfork in his hands inside the barn; the rears of two horses can be seen through the barn windows and side doorway; pigs in pen at right; cattle grazing at left; church steeple in background.

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The Valley Agricultural Society Winchester VA

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Image of an agricultural exhibition or fair on a certificate from the Valley Agricultural Society of Winchester, Virginia; livestock being shown to onlookers at center, including horses, cows, sheep, and pigs; tents and grandstand full of people in background; produce, birds, and farming implements as well as intertwined wheat stalks make decorative borders.

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Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

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Image of a farm with livestock, farmhouse, barn, and farm workers on a diploma issued by the New York State Agricultural Society; sheaves of wheat, livestock, and farm scenes including a man with plow and horses, a man harvesting grain, workers pulling a wagon full of hay, and a woman watering flowers form a border.

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To the electors of the third district

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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.

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Assignee's sale of valuable real estate and pers'l property!

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