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The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy instituted to cultivate the knowledge of pharmaceutical science

Description: Image of an interior view of a pharmaceutical lab at the top of a certificate admitting T. Larkin Turner to the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy dated September 1, 1854.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1854
Call number: priJLC_EDU_004506
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.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Whereas, I, George P. Helfrish of Boston in the state of Massachusetts

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Image of the United States Patent Office in Washington, D.C., at the top of a letters patent certificate transferring letters patent for "improvement in plates or dishes" from George P. Helfrish to lithographer Louis Prang; seal with witness signatures below.

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Worthington & Warner's commercial college

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Image of an allegorical seated woman offering a male graduate a laurel wreath near farmers and other tradesmen and women at the top of a diploma from Worthington & Warner's Commercial College of Concord, New Hampshire, issued in 1865.

priJLC_EDU_001924

Engineering Society Iowa State Agricultural College. Ames, Iowa

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Image of a suspension bridge with a factory, instruments, machinery, and "Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering" banner in foreground at the top of a diploma issued in 1891 to John H. Moore from the Iowa State Agricultural College Engineering Society.

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The California State Agricultural Society award this diploma to

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Image of a diploma certificate from the California State Agricultural Society with agricultural and industrial vignettes surrounding the certificate text in an elaborate decorative border; horses and livestock, farms and fields, steamboat and train transport, and "California State Agricultural Society Organized 1854" form border of certificate.

priJLC_AGR_001806

Ohio Female College, : College Hill, Hamilton Co. Ohio

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Image of an eye-level street view of the Ohio Female College campus in Cincinnati, Ohio, showing a street with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground, and the landscaped grounds with pond, rowboat, gazebos, fountain, and college buildings, in the background; information about the college printed in margin.

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Essex Agricultural Society, of Massachusetts

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Image of a woman in flowing garments seated with arms around two children and gesturing next to a beehive and flowers illustrating a certificate of membership from the Essex Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farm, fields, and barn buildings in background; two cherubs with farming implements outside a center circular frame.

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The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy instituted to cultivate the knowledge of pharmaceutical science

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