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The Century : midsummer holiday number. August

Description: Image of an advertisement for The Century magazine August 1897 issue featuring a young woman lounging nude in the grass looking upwards toward the sky with her hands around her knees; trees in background.
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Date: 1897
Call number: priHHC_ART_0000191
Provenance: Acquired from various sources; please consult Finding Aid for details.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Bac, Ferdinand, (1859-1952.); Beardsley, Aubrey, (1872-1898.); Berthon, Paul, (1872-1909.); Bird, Elisha Brown. (1871-1946.); Carqueville, William L., (1865-1933.); Castaigne, J. André. (1862-1894.); Chambers, Robert W. (1873-1952.); Chip, (1856-1919.); Christy, Howard Chandler, (1857-1922.); Collin, Dwight Ripley. (1859-1950.); Cox, Charles A. (1877-1960.); Cox, Kenyon, (1867-1944.); Dow, Arthur W. (1880-1935.); Edwards, George Wharton, (1841-1917.); Emerson, Ralph L. (1863-1930.); Flagg, James Montgomery, (1876-1925.); Gibson, Charles Dana, (1841-); Gould, J. J., Jr. (1869-1938.); Grasset, Eugène, (1853-1940.); Gunn, Archie, (1874-1951.); Hampe, Theo., active 1893. (1864-); Haskell, Ernest, (1853-1932.); Herford, Oliver. (1871-1949.); Huyot, Jules Jean Marie Joseph, (1868-1954.); Kendall, William Sergeant, (1864-1942.); Lawrence, H. M. (1869-1935.); Leloir, Maurice, (1860-1905.); Leyendecker, J. C. (1869-1959.); Lincoln, A. B. W. (1862-1924.); Linson, Corwin Knapp, (1856-1936.); Low, Will H. (1870-1966.); Lundborg, Florence, (1866-1925.); Mayer, Henry, (1858-1924.); McCarter, Henry, (1874-1912.); McManus, Blanche, (1861-1909.); McVickar, H. W. (1857-1926.); Moores, A. J. (1877-); Nankivell, Frank A. (1862-1937.); Newell, Peter, (1854-1948.); Norton, M. E. (1869-1931.); Ogden, Henry Alexander, (1872-1942.); Orr, Arthur A. (1861-1905.); Parrish, Maxfield, (1864-1917.); Penfield, Edward, (1864-1940.); Pierce, E. S.; Prendergast, Maurice,; Reed, Ethel,; Remington, Frederic,; Rhead, Louis,; Rhodes, J. E.; Rhodes, Jos. E.; Richardson, Frederick,; Roush, L. L.; Russell, Robert Howard.; Sharp, L.; Sherwood, Rosina Emmet,; Skinner, E. F.; Smith, F. Berkeley; Stewardson, John.; Vanderhoof, Charles A.; Wagner, Rob,; Weinholdt, M.; Wenzell, A. B.; Woodbury, Charles H.
Associated organizations: A.C. McClurg & Co.; Boussod, Valadon & Cie.; Century Company.; Charles Scribner's Sons.; E.A.; Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.; G.H. Buek & Co.; H.A. Thomas & Wylie.; Harper & Brothers.; Heliotype Printing Co.; Henry Holt and Company.; Hudson-Kimberly Pub.; Imprimerie Chaix.; International News Company (New York, N.Y.); J. Ottmann Lithographic Company.; J.B. Lippincott Company.; J.S. Virtue and Co.; Joseph Knight Company.; Lamson, Wolffe & Co.; Orcutt Litho Co.; R.H. Russell (Firm); Shober & Carqueville.; Stone & Kimball.; Wilhelm Hoffmann AG.
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