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Montezuma Hotel

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Description: Image of a perspective view of the Montezuma Hotel with a front lawn landscaped with plants and cacti, gazebo, fountain, and trails, a woman carrying a pot on her head and a man on a donkey in the foreground, mountains in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1882
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_001031
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.

Stock label: Native American woman carrying water pot on head in Indian village

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Image of three Native American women in an Indian village, one carrying a pot of water on her head, another weaving a basket, and another smoking a peace pipe, Indian blanket, canoe in a stream, tipis and mission in background; three oranges with leaves in right corner.

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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : section 4. Performing wild beast division of the new million dollar free street parade

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Image of a circus street parade featuring a bandwagon and circus wagons with zoo animals, including lions and tigers, and animal trainers, circling a small fenced park with a lawn and water fountain, with multi-story buildings in the background; a man on horseback holds a flag labeled "Parade Section No. 4."

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Prospect Park & Coney Island Railroad ... excursion tickets, 40 cts

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Image of a poster with a central image of an elevated street view of the lawn, walkways, bandstand, covered fountain, and trees before the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad terminal on Coney Island in New York City, captioned "Grand Plaza and Promenade, terminus of the rail road on Coney Island," with a timetable, promotional descriptions, and seven additional vignettes of crowded scenes of people visiting Coney Island, including two top corner images of beach scenes; a top center image of the lawn, bandstand, and building captioned, “Grand view of 50 miles from observatory 300 feet high”, a lower center image of a steam locomotive with three open passenger cars, a bottom left image of the iron tower observatory, a bottom center image of the 1872 railroad station, captioned, “Brooklyn Depot, Ninth Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets, Greenwood”, with horse-drawn trolleys and carriage, and a bottom right image of a covered drinking fountain.

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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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Capitol of Michigan. : Lansing

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Image of a eye-level street view of the domed Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, showing the front lawn with a fountain and visitors walking the grounds and arriving in horse-drawn carriages; building dimensions and the names of the commissioners printed in bottom margin.

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The packet-boat Shenandoah, Capt. S. Compson, will hereafter leave Montezuma for Geneva daily ... Sept. 12, 1845

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Image of a broadside advertising new routes for the steamboats Shenandoah and Norwich, with fares for travel between the cities of Montezuma, Geneva, Schenectady, and Syracuse, New York, including pricing with and without board and/or meals.

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Montezuma Hotel

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