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Better times are coming bye & bye

Description: Image of a sheet music advertisement for the song Better Times Are Coming Bye & Bye by Will C. Carleton; half-length portrait of a woman seated in a chair with her head resting on her hand; elaborate floral decorative border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1905
Call number: priJLC_ART_003066
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.

Bradley his book

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Bradley His Book magazine featuring a woman in draped Classical garb and a laurel wreath on her head stroking a peacock; decorative floral border.

priJLC_ART_003047

American B.H.O. & Sewing Machine Co

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for sewing machine model number 7 manufactured by the American Button Hole, Overseaming, and Sewing Machine Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; seven styles of sewing machines with prices and descriptions; decorative floral border with roses, a waterfall, sailboat along a shoreline, eagle, horse-drawn cart on a lane, and train locomotive coming around a bend on a railroad.

priJLC_HHD_002500

The head of the firm

Visual Materials

Image of a an anthropomorphized pig wearing a waistcoat, jacket, pants, shirt, tie, and glasses seated in a tufted chair next to a table; triangular ring by H.W. Hill & Co. of Decatur, Illinois, through one nostril on his snout and one held in one hoof; framed image of H.W. Hill & Co. industrial building at top left; decorative border with H.W. Hill & Co. "trade mark" triangular rings in each corner.

priJLC_AGR_001820

Poster calendar 1897

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the Poster Calendar for 1897 by L. Prang & Company featuring a seated woman wearing a long flowing dress looking through the calendar on her lap; elaborate border made up of zodiac symbols and seasonal botanical motifs.

priJLC_ART_003198

Dr. Leons’ celebrated preparations

Visual Materials

Image of three vignettes advertising Dr. Leons’ celebrated preparations; woman with long hair in dishabille at left uses "Dr. Leons' Electric Hair Renewer" while seated in front of a vanity; woman at center plays a piano; woman seated at right accompanied by her husband offers "Dr. Leons' Infant Remedy' to her three young children; decorative border.

priJLC_MED_002626

Andrew Jackson. Seventh president of the United States

Visual Materials

Image of a portrait of United States President Andrew Jackson seated in a chair with sword in one arm and hand extended on a desk resting on a copy of the Declaration of Independence; quill pen and books on desk.

priJLC_POL_003941

Better times are coming bye & bye

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