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Starin's Glen Island, N.Y. : Will open for the season of 1881, on Saturday, May 28th

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Description: Image of an advertisement for John Starin's Glen Island in New York. The foreground image is of water filled with rowboats, sailboats, and tour boats. The background of the print shows Glen Island's Grand Pavilion and the Tower of Little Germany.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1881
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_000689
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.

Starin's excursions

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Image of an advertisement for John H. Starin's island excursions. Includes perspective views of Manhattan Beach Hotel and the Oriental Hotel, as well as images of Starin's resorts at Alpine Grove, Glen Island, and New Rochelle. The central image depicts an image of Starin’s fleet of ships and steamboats on water, and other imagery includes people traveling to destinations on boats. Located on the left and right edges of the poster are two waving flags representing Star-in’s personal flag, abbreviated with a symbol of a star in place of lettering for his name.

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Coming of autumn. ; Summer by the sea. ; [Pleasant homes]

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Image of a proof sheet for three landscape prints including cottages on the seacoast with rowboats and sailboats.

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[Coming of autumn.] ; [Summer by the sea.] ; [Pleasant homes]

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Image of a proof sheet for three landscape prints including cottages on the seacoast with rowboats and sailboats.

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Birds eye view of the International Exhibition buildings, 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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Image of an aerial view of the buildings and the surrounding landscape for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876; river and rowboats visible in the foreground; captions below image indicate the Office, Judges Hall, U.S. Government Building (500 ft. x 360 ft.), Ladies Pavilion, Machinery Hall (1360 ft. x 360 ft.), Main Building (1880 ft. x 464 ft.), Memorial Hall (365 ft. x 210 ft.), Horticultural Hall (383 ft. x 193 ft.) and Agricultural Hall (820 ft. x 540 ft.).

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Lake Pleasant, Mass. Hoosac tunnel route. : A popular summer resort

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Image of an advertisement for the Lake Pleasant summer resort in Montague, Massachusetts, with an eye-level central landscape view of canoes and boats on a lake surrounded by seven vignettes of varying sizes labeled as the railroad station, band stand, pavilion, Mount Tobey, Association Headquarters, bridge to highlands, and the Lake Pleasant Hotel; center image framed with flowers.

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Oswego, N.Y

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Image of an elevated city view of Oswego, New York, on the Oswego River where it joins Lake Ontario; boats and ships sail up the river and are docked along the waterfront; bridges connect the city over the river.

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Starin's Glen Island, N.Y. : Will open for the season of 1881, on Saturday, May 28th

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