Visual Materials

Ballads of our fore-fathers

Description: Image of an advertisement for Ballads of Our Fore-fathers including The Boston Tea Party, Yankee Doodle, Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, and Pretty Peggy & Pray Papa; four vignettes illustrate tea being served, an American Revolutionary soldier on horseback, two children being told a story by an older woman, and a portrait of a girl wearing a hat.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003099
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.

Yankee Doodle Brand

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Image mirroring Archibald Willard's painting "The Spirit of 1776," three military band soldiers, or Corps of Drums, marching with instruments playing Yankee Doodle, American Revolutionary War soldiers with bayonets carrying an American flag in background.

ephJLC_CIT_000841

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Yankee Doodle Brand

Visual Materials

Image mirroring Archibald Willard's painting "The Spirit of 1776," three military band soldiers, or Corps of Drums, marching with instruments playing Yankee Doodle, profile of an American Revolutionary War battle behind them; California Red Ball logo at top left corner.

ephJLC_CIT_000840

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Yankee Doodle

Visual Materials

Image mirroring Archibald Willard's painting "The Spirit of 1776" of three anthropomorphic frogs using cattails to mimic instruments in a Yankee Doodle marching band, carrying a flag, standing on lily pads with flowers in a pond.

ephJLC_CIT_000839

Teas only. Lovell, Pomeroy & Co

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet explaining the growth and curing of teas sold by the Lovell, Pomeroy & Co. tea dealers of New York, New York; image of tea being harvested and cured in Japan at top center of leaflet; letter from Lovell, Pomeroy & Co. to their customers on verso.

priJLC_BEV_004580

Our father who art in heaven

Visual Materials

Image of the Lord's Prayer in a graphic mix of fonts and styles interspersed with symbols, verses, and proverbs, including an eye, sheep, dove, beehive, Noah's ark, sun and moon, scales, arrows, coffin, skull and crossbones, and several others.

priJLC_REL_004584

Sweet home soap

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Image of a five-fold leaflet advertising Sweet Home family soap manufactured by J. L. Sarkin & Co. of Buffalo, N.Y.; six panels illustrate twin babies being cared for by various figures, including the old nurse, the fond papa, the careless nurse, the maiden aunt, the dude uncle, and the mother; retail information and testimonials on verso.

priJLC_HHD_003827

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