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The white islander

Description: Image of a woman huddling close to a man, who is tied up and being burned at the stake; a priest raises his hands to perform marriage rites for the couple before him.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1895-1911
Call number: priJLC_ART_003068
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.

Jeff's last shift. Capture of Jeff. Davis, May 10th, 1865, at Irwinsville, GA

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Image of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, dressed in a bonnet and dress and wielding a Bowie knife, being captured by Union soldiers during the American Civil War; two Union soldiers point their guns at Davis while a third grabs Davis's arm; a woman (possibly his wife Varina Davis) raises her hands in alarm.

priJLC_MIL_003324

The planter’s wife

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Image of a couple, with the man on his tiptoes, holding hands and about to kiss in front of a bush with flowers; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Planter's Wife" by James K. Tillotson.

priJLC_ENT_000458

Outing for December

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Image of an advertisement for Outing magazine December 1895 issue featuring several winter vignettes, including the Christmas star, a moose in a snowy forest, a child on show shoes, a couple ice skating under bells, a man on snow shoes in a forest, and a holly wreath tied with ribbon.

priJLC_ART_003221

The young American tragedian Edmund Collier in Metamora

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Image of three vignettes of fights and battles between British soldiers, pilgrims, and Native American Indians, with Indians and colonists both shooting rifles and including a scene with Indians attacking colonists in a house and an outdoor scene with colonists firing rifles on Indians who have bows and arrows and tomahawks while a man is burned at the stake in the background; the poster advertises the historical melodrama "Metamora, or The Last of Wampanoags" by John A. Stone.

priJLC_ENT_000441

The guv’nor

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Image of a scene in a boathouse on a lake with four men and a couple standing near a kitchen table and chair, boat, and oars, with a vignette of a proposal scene with a man and woman sitting and holding hands while an older man looks on; the poster advertises the farce comedy "The Guv'nor" written by E. G. Lankester.

priJLC_ENT_000385

Niagara Falls. No. 2. View of the Horse Shoe fall from Goat Island

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Image of a landscape view of Niagara Falls Horse Shoe waterfall from Goat Island in New York; a couple points and admires the falls at right.

priJLC_VIEW_004019

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