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Ohio White Sulphur Springs

Description: Image of an elevated landscape view of White Sulphur, Ohio, a therapeutic sulphur spa town, showing buildings surrounding a park square with people boating in the water; four corner vignettes of the springs Magnesian, Saline Chalybeate, White Sulphur, and Chalybeate.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1858-1859
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_000563
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.

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Image of an elevated landscape view of Florence, Massachusetts, showing tree stumps in the foreground and the town with mountains in the background; fourteen vignettes of the school house, church, and residences along the border.

priJLC_VIEW_000544

The Switzerland of America

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, the Lehigh River, and surrounding mountains, with a railroad bridge and train in the distance; fiver vignettes of railway cars, waterfalls, and head-and-shoulders portraits of T. L. Mumford and H. J. Mumford, managers of the switch back railroad.

priJLC_VIEW_000573

Berkeley Springs. : A celebrated and fashionable health resort. County seat of Morgan Co., W. Va

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Image of an elevated landscape view from the top of Warm Spring Mountain of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, showing buildings, roads, and the surrounding hillsides; with seven eye-level vignettes above the main image of buildings in Berkeley Springs: the Mount Wesley School, the Berkley Spring Hotel, Pagoda Spring, the swimming pools and baths buildings, Principal Spring, the court house, and railroad depot.

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Milford, Mass. : No. 18 : Album of New England scenery

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Milford, Massachusetts, as seen from the top of a long dirt road with horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and cattle, leading into the town.

priJLC_VIEW_000554

This is to certify that H. H. Flagg ... Gold Hill Fire Department

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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Gold Hill Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada, made out in manuscript to H. H. Flagg and dated May 22, 1867, with multiple vignettes including bare-chested goddesses riding two horses, with one holding a triton; a manual fire engine and a steam fire engine; a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a wounded firefighter on a mattress being nursed by a young woman while another fireman on a ladder behind them lowers a bundle tied in a rope; two eye-level exterior views of firehouses, both labeled "Yellow Jacket Engine Ho."; and an elevated landscape view presumably of the town of Gold Hill, Nevada; the certificate and vignettes are decorated with borders containing ivy leaves, bean pods, grapes, and other plants and firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, hoses, ladders, hats, speaking trumpets, a lantern, censers, and axes.

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American fashions spring & summer 1852 by Genio C. Scott, No. 130 Broadway New York

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Image of two vignettes featuring primarily men, also women and children outdoors; fashion details include full skirts, a mantle, jacket, waistcoat corsage with embroidery, and riding habit for women, men's day and evening wear, coats and jackets worn with waistcoats and cravats, and trousers for both men and boys; fishing, hunting, boating, and sporting attire, including rifles and a spyglass telescope; accessories include top hats, canes, feathered and floral women's hats, and a parasol; reference key for figures numbered 1-20 in margin.

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