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A whirl asunder

Description: Image of an advertisement for A Whirl Asunder by Gertrude Atherton; a woman with long swirling red hair gazes at a heraldry shield with hearts, eagle, and lion broken in two.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003124
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.

A puritan's wife by Max Pemberton

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Image of an advertisement for A Puritan's Wife by Max Pemberton featuring a three-quarter length portrait of a woman picking roses with lion heraldry inset at top right and bottom left.

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Continental Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn

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Image of an advertisement for Continental Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; American eagle standing on a Union shield atop a large globe flanked by a Native American Indian man and a colonial American militia soldier; heraldry shield with Latin motto and company officers listed below.

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We, Us & Co. : Shashay

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Image of a quack doctor's office filled with strange medical instruments, jars, and signs promising cures, with an older man crashing through the glass of a window after being ejected from an exam table as a larger bald man watches on; the signs read "Swollen heads reduced to natural size," "Incurable Diseases a Specialty," "Broken Hearts Repaired," "No pay no cure," "Hair restored," "Lost Affections Restored," and a machine has a gauge with the markings "Rock Rye Cake Pie Tulu Buns"; the poster advertises the farce comedy "We, Us & Co." produced under the management of William Mestayer.

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Keystone stove polish

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Image of an advertisement for Keystone stove polish with "virtue liberty and independence" heraldry trademark at center and elaborate decorative border.

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Crowning of a czar : May century

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Image of an advertisement for Century magazine May 1896 issue; a bearded man wearing a long ermine cloak places a crown on his own head; heraldry with a pair of eagles in foreground.

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The bow of orange ribbon

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Image of an advertisement for The Bow of Orange Ribbon by Amelia E. Barr; a sword tied with an orange ribbon bow lies across a shield at center with the silhouette of a town along a coastline along the top of the shield.

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A whirl asunder

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