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Lucilline

Description: Image of an advertisement for Lucilline balm made by Lucent Oil Work of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a woman in robes and a cape wearing a laurel wreath on the head sits and gazes upward raptly while holding paper and a quill pen on her lap.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003056
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.

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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.

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian actor Tommaso Salvini, in an oval frame decorated with a laurel wreath, centered between four vignettes of Salvini with male and female performers in historic costumes performing in scenes from three tragedies by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, and the play "Ingomar, the Barbarian" by Maria Anne Lovell, and including Salvini holding a skull in a cemetery and wearing a fur cape as a tribesman with a Greek young woman holding a spear and shield.

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Image of a bearded man sitting with an open book in his lap and holding a quill pen; globe in background.

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Image of an advertisement for The Sun featuring a woman wearing a long draped dress and a laurel head wreath standing next to a river; sun and trees in background.

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The largest millinery house in the world. Jas. G. Johnson & Co. importers and manufacturers of millinery goods, straw and fancy hats

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Image of a parade with a woman seated on a chair hung with roses holding a banner that reads "Peace and Prosperity," she wears white robes and a diadem the reads "Columbia" and is draped with an American flag; bald eagle and laurel wreath sit amongst flowers at her feet; men wearing military uniforms and ethnic garb from their respective countries cheer and throw floral bouquets with various messages of goodwill attached, including China, England, Germany, Japan, Italy, Persia, Austria, Canada, Cuba and others; image of the millinery building and storefront at "649-651-653-655 Broadway New York" at top right; circular frames along left margin feature American achievements like sky scrapers, yachts, steel, the Panama Canal, artist.s, train cars & engines, and agricultural implements.

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Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring an angel with herald trumpet and laurel wreath above and a winged dragon below an alphabet in square text script.

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