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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 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.

priJLC_ART_003305

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Image of an advertisement for the Philadelphia Sunday Press featuring a woman wearing a long draped dress and a holly head wreath holding a quill pen in one hand and a scroll in the other; trees in background.

priJLC_ART_003304

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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine; mostly nude male figure wearing a laurel wreath and billowing fabric head covering holds a large torch aloft; shield printed with stars and stripes at bottom right.

priJLC_ART_003065

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.

priJLC_FASH_001676

Queen Shenandoah brand

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Image of a Queen Shenandoah brand fruit label for Martinsburg Fruit Exchange Incorporated of Martinsburg, West Virginia; a queen in blue robes wearing a circlet and sandals sits under an apple tree with an overflowing cornucopia of apples.

priJLC_FOOD_FtVeg_001989

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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.

priJLC_ART_003047

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