Visual Materials

Emerson's megatherian minstrels

Description: Image of an advertisement for Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels featuring bust-length portraits of William Emerson and R.M. Hooley in oval foliage frames; an African-American man is pictured below at center holding a scroll with advertisement text; small vignettes of a steamboat on the water at bottom left and a log cabin with an African-American woman with a basket balanced on her head standing outside at bottom right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1878-1879
Call number: priJLC_ENT_004745
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Harmony Fire and Marine Insurance Co

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Image of an advertisement for the Harmony Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New York City; a boy stands at center with a lion, lamp, cat, and pair of doves in an oval floral frame; three women among palm trees, foliage, and flowers make a larger rectangular frame; American flag banners at top right and left; seascape of ships sailing near coastlines at bottom center.

priJLC_FIN_002581

Mallory S. S. Lines to Texas and Florida

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Image of a curtain pushed aside next to an open porthole window with a steamship and a sailboat sailing at night under a moonlit sky visible outside; palms and foliage at bottom left; compass and other navigational tools at bottom right; image of a steamship sailing at sunset inset in oval frame captioned, "Mallory S.S. Lines." at bottom center.

priJLC_MAR_001431

The Olympian games depicted by : correspondent and artist of Scribner's

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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine coverage of the 1896 Olympic Games featuring a male athlete throwing the discus at center; silhouette of foliage in background.

priHHC_ART_0000176

Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

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Image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits and sitting with their musical instruments on a curtained stage; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Z. W. Sprague at top centered with four corner vignettes of minstrel performers consisting of a man gesturing at top left, a man dancing at top right, a man in a hobo costume holding an umbrella and jumping at bottom right, and two men in hobo costumes playing a banjo and tambourine at bottom left.

priJLC_ENT_000508

1864. The evening telegraph. 1896

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Image of an advertisement for the Evening Telegraph featuring an actress wearing robes and a circlet unfurling a scroll with a quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV, "Look! here comes more news."

priJLC_ART_003270

Briggs & Bro, seedsmen and florists. Rochester, N.Y. 1872

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Image of a bouquet of foliage and flowers, including chrysanthemums, fuchsia, lilies, and pansies, in a footed vessel on a pedestal in an arched alcove; vines creep up the wall at left; monarch butterfly at bottom center.

priJLC_HORT_002424

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