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Irwin & Co., lottery and exchange brokers, no. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore

Description: Image of a broadside listing information about lottery prizes, rewards, and ticketing pricing for a drawing organized by Irwin & Co. taking place at Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on Wednesday, July 19th, 1854. Prize rewards range from $20,000 to $60,000. Five columns separate the different schemes and earnings of the drawings. Towards the top left corner is an image from an engraving of a view of Barnum's City Hotel in Maryland. The advertisement for the event is printed twice on one page.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1854
Call number: priJLC_SPO_003563
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Irwin & Co., lottery and exchange brokers, no. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore

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Printer: Murphy & Co., Baltimore (Md.).

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J. H. Miller & Co. lottery and exchange brokers and dealers in foreign gold, bank notes, bullion, &C

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Image of a folded leaflet describing the lottery schemes for drawings organized by J.H. Miller & Co. taking place in Baltimore, Maryland throughout the month of June in 1856. Information on recto and verso list prize amounts and dates of the lotteries. Towards the bottom of recto, printed sideways in landscape orientation is information about the grand consolidated lottery of Maryland with 32,396 prizes amounting to $1,202,000. Multiple fonts are used throughout the print, and reward amounts are bolded. Images of hand symbols are used to point out specific rules of the drawings and amounts of winnings.

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France, Broadbents & Co.'s Delaware lotteries

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Image of a broadside listing information about lottery prizes for a drawing taking place on Tuesday, August 28th, 1860 in Wilmington, Delaware. The scheme on the print lists totals of "32.396 prizes, ... amounting to $281.860." The rewards and pricing information are printed in bold. Towards the bottom of the print is an image of two hands shown pointing at text listing the rules of the lottery.

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of a waterfront scene, with boats and the city of Baltimore, Maryland, in the distance, and people harvesting wheat in the foreground, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Maryland and two plant stalks.

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Class 129, to be drawn in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, July 31st, 1860

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Image of a broadside listing information about lottery prizes, rewards, and ticket pricing for a lottery drawing taking place on July 31st, 1860 in Wilmington, Delaware. Whole tickets for the drawing are sold for five dollars, half tickets for two dollars and fifty cents, and quarter tickets for one dollar and twenty-five cents. The scheme on the print also lists totals of "32.396 prizes, ... amounting to $281.861." The rewards and title information are printed in bold. Towards the bottom of the print is an image of two hands shown pointing at text listing the rules of the lottery.

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Wilmington Exchange Hotel, ca. 1860's

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The Wilmington Exchange building, hotel and stage station to Los Angeles before the railroad. In the front of the hotel is a 4 horse stage coach with passengers. A small cart with one horse is visible on the right. People are visible on the balcony and in front of the hotel.

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Irwin & Co., lottery and exchange brokers, no. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore

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