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Mob rule by Thomas B. Reed

Description: Image of an advertisement for the Saturday Evening Post with a mob of men shouting at center.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900
Call number: priJLC_ART_003062
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.

Bearings : decoration day cycle races

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Bearings magazine Decoration Day cycle races; three men racing on bicycles at center; silhouettes of Union soldiers marching in ranks and war veterans walking in pairs above and below.

priJLC_ART_003064

Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of center image plus four vignettes on fans featuring oversized produce in an advertisement for Rice's Seeds; four men of various nationalities, including an American, a man in a turban, and an African-American, all tugging on an oversized basket of fruit and vegetables at center; an elderly woman in a lace cap with her dog reacts with shock at a large "Hubbard Squash" in her house; two men in ancient Egyptian garb examine a huge "New Egyptian Beet" near columns; an oversized "Striped Gypsy Water Melon" (watermelon) is consumed by a group of men and women; two children carry a giant tomato between them in a field.

priJLC_HORT_002461

Prof. B. W. Putnam illustrated lecture on pottery

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for a lecture on pottery given by Professor Benjamin W. Putman; center portrait of the professor framed by an elaborate border of vases from a variety of time periods and cultures; vignettes of vases being made by a thrower and moulder at top left and right; lecture scene in bottom center.

priJLC_EDU_003844

The Suffolk and California Mutual Trading & Mining Association

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for the packet ship New Jersey; image of the ship with full sails at center.

priJLC_MAR_001404

Esto perpetua : Continental Fire Insurance Company

Visual Materials

Image of Native American Indians hunting bison with bows and arrows on horseback in an advertisement for Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York; two men stand next to a tipi in foreground at center; buildings and bridges along river and railroad trains traveling "San Francisco to New York" in background at right.

priJLC_FIN_002601

Pratt's clocks

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for clocks made by Daniel Pratt, Jr. of Reading, Massachusetts; image of clock retail store interior at center; elaborate botanical border with American bald eagle with Union shield at top center.

priJLC_HHD_002482

Mob rule by Thomas B. Reed

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