Visual Materials

Aetna Dynamite

Description: Image of a male worker with a red flag raised over his shoulder and an upraised hand; large dynamite blast visible behind him; the poster advertises the dynamite of the Aetna Powder Company of Chicago, Illinois.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_002698
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.

The ensign : written by Wm Haworth

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Image of United States President Abraham Lincoln holding a piece of paper and standing before a full waste basket while a little girl in a pink dress carrying a doll tugs on his sleeve and the Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles looks on from behind the desk; an American flag is emblazoned behind the title of the play at top center; the poster advertises the naval melodrama "The Ensign" written by William Haworth.

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Aetna Insurance Co

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Image of an eye-level view of a smoking Mount Aetna with buildings and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, in the foreground at the center of an advertisement for Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; elaborate decorative frame and border highlighting cash capital and losses paid.

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The comic opera success Said Pasha by Richard Stahl

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Image of a man in a skirted costume with a sword, glancing over his shoulder at a boy in a similar outfit; the poster advertises the comic opera "Said Pasha" written by Richard Stahl.

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Zig zag : W.W. Tillotson’s Merry Comedy Co

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Image of a collage of head-and-shoulder portraits of six female performers in formal dress, each wearing a different fashionable woman's hat; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Zig Zag" written by Frank Tannehill, Jr., and managed by W.W. Tillotson.

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Aetna Insurance Co of Hartford Conn. 1887

Visual Materials

Image of a calendar for 1887 advertising Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut; fire engine pulled by two horses racing down a city street at center with firefighters extinguishing a fire in a building at left; image of Mount Aetna volcano erupting and sailboats along the coast of Sicily, Italy, inset at right.

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A Rag Baby by Chas. H. Hoyt

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Image of three head-and-shoulder portraits of female actors, including two wearing bonnets and one with small decorative fans in her hair, in circle ribbon frames surrounded by flowers; the poster advertises the comedy "A Rag Baby" written by Charles H. Hoyt.

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Aetna Dynamite

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