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La novela más celebrada en la América del Norte

Description: Image of an advertisement for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hester Prynne (wearing a large red "A" on her chest) walks along a dirt road with her eyes downcast as two women point and stare behind her; town buildings and wood bridge in background.
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Date: approximately 1894
Call number: priJLC_ART_003125
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.

Behind the arras by Bliss Carman

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Image of an advertisement for Behind the Arras by Bliss Carman featuring a bust-length image of a young woman with eyes cast downward reading a book; lily flowers above her head in background.

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Th. Nast : a picture of the times when history was warm in the making. Pearson's April

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Image of an advertisement for the Pearson's magazine April 1904 issue; a man holding a sword walks behind a curtain, catching a kneeling man in uniform shining a flashlight on some documents in the midst of a plot.

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La Primavera

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Image of a circular bust-length portrait mounted on a page of a young Italian woman in a veil with eyes downcast holding a small bouquet of flowers.

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Whittier's barefooted boy

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Image of a small barefoot boy in overalls standing on a rock in a stream inspired by the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier; a dirt path behind him leads past a stand of trees towards a house in the distance at left.

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The Sunday journal

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Image of an advertisement for the Sunday Journal periodical; a woman walks along a path near trees with her veil blowing in the wind.

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The debilitated situation of a monarchical government

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Image of a political cartoon comparing French and American governments prompted by 1836 events; King Louis Philippe at left with several of his ministers or officers and an overturned chest from which issue statements of the country's debts and a picture of Giuseppe Maria Fieschi dated July 28, 1835; Louis Philippe holds in his hand a card reading "Fortunate speculation 25 millions;" one of his officers forcibly impresses a seaman, and points toward the ship "Dido" which is moored off shore; Andrew Jackson stands holding up the Treaty of 1831 near other American officers at right near a chest full of money with a picture of the United States Capitol inside the lid; behind officers a gentleman holds forth a bag of money, a sailor waves his cap, and an armed citizen stands by; near the chest are books, one open to a list of American victories during the War of 1812 on which rests a laurel, and the other features a picture of George Washington; in the distance three American ships are moored, including the "Constitution" and the "New Orleans;" head of Liberty medallion at bottom center.

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La novela más celebrada en la América del Norte

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