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Huron House : S. Wilt, proprietor

Description: Image of an elevated street view of the three-story Huron House hotel, located in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, with gated gardens and fountain, and visitors on the front porch and sidewalk; a train locomotive is in the right foreground.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1857
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_000672
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.

Pan-Handle route : Union Passenger Station, Chicago, Ill

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the brick Union Passenger Station building in Chicago, Illinois, with a busy street scene in the foreground containing pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, two men riding high-wheel bicycles, and people on horseback; a locomotive and train car are visible to the left and ship masts are visible behind the buildings; two lower corner vignettes depict an empty waiting room and porch.

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Das Deutsche ev. luth. Concordia – Predigerseminar : zu St. Louis, MO. : Vollendet im September 1883

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated street view of the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, showing people on the campus grounds and tree-lined sidewalk, a horse-drawn trolley and man on horseback in the road in the foreground.

priJLC_REL_000608

East view of Mt. Vernon mansion

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Image of an eye-level view of the east facade of the Mount Vernon mansion on George Washington's Virginia estate, showing the two-story porch, with strolling visitors on the lawn in the foreground, and the Potomac River in the distance.

priJLC_VIEW_000665

Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon, : the home of Washington

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Image of an elevated landscape view of Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia estate, as viewed from above the Potomac River, with Washington's tomb in the foreground, and the mansion and other buildings, beyond; visitors walk along the grounds.

priJLC_VIEW_000659

Fairmount

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing the Schuylkill River with waterfalls, boats, and trees and buildings on the banks and hillsides, and the waterworks' pump house and bridge in the foreground, with strolling visitors.

priJLC_VIEW_000666

Horse shoe bend : Allegheny Mountains

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Image of an elevated landscape view of Horseshoe Curve in the Allegheny Mountains with steam locomotive passenger trains running on tracks across a forested mountainside; the train in the foreground has a car labeled "Fast Mail Route / Express Mail"; decorative border with tassels.

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Huron House : S. Wilt, proprietor

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