Visual Materials

Series II. Military prints and ephemera (large size)

Description

This series contains nearly 400 large-size printed items related to military, wars, and armed forces in the United States from approximately 1832 to 1966, with the majority of items dating from 1860 to 1900. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed documentary prints depicting battles and battlefields, military camps, portraits of officers and political figures, hospitals, prisons, monuments, and maps. Certificates of discharge, association and membership, military registers of companies or units, and memorial records are also part of this series.

These materials consist of color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 31 x 46 inches. Notable holdings consist of three series of Civil War prints: a series of portraits produced by lithographers Ehrgott & Forbriger of Cincinnati, and two commemorative series produced by Chicago lithographers Kurz & Allison (one of battle scenes and one of portraits).

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Date

approximately 1832-1966, bulk 1860-1900

Series II. Agriculture Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains 125 large-size printed items related to agriculture in the United States from approximately 1836 to 1924, with the majority of items dating from 1850 to 1910. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed and engraved advertisements as well as certificates issued by or related to agricultural societies and organizations. These materials consist of color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 26 x 38 inches.

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Series II. Maritime Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains 57 large-size printed items pertaining to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses in the United States from 1825 to approximately 1942, with the majority of items dating from 1840 to 1890. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints produced for steamship companies, including both domestic and transoceanic passenger and commercial services. Genres represented include advertising prints, certificates, broadsides, and documentary prints. The series contains color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 30 x 40 inches.

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Jay T. Last collection of military prints and ephemera

Visual Materials

The Jay T. Last collection of military prints and ephemera contains approximately 4,900 printed items from 1785 to 1966, with the majority of material dating from 1860 to 1900. The collection consists of prints depicting primarily American battle scenes, forts, camps, prisons, and military officers; advertising ephemera with military-related images, more than 3,000 Civil War-era patriotic envelopes, and over 100 Civil War-era song sheets.Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (bigger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items measuring less than 8 x 10 inches are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and small-size items between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches are fully inventoried, and all printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. The collection has nearly 400 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic and engraved prints including printed illustrations of battlefields, certificates and contracts, and portraits of major military and political figures during wartime. Small-size items in the collection number almost 4,500 items and are comprised mainly of patriotic envelopes (also known as patriotic covers) from the American Civil War. Other stationery such as postcards and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text) are found in this series, as well as advertising ephemera with military-related illustrations. The collection mainly includes prints and ephemera related to the American Civil War, both contemporaneous and commemorative in nature. The American Revolutionary War, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish-American War are also represented. The images are primarily documentary or patriotic in nature and provide information about the American military, as well as the evolution of advertising strategies employed by businesses during periods of conflict in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Series II. Horticulture Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains over 50 large-size printed items related to horticulture in the United States from approximately 1846 to 1921, with the majority of items dating from 1865 to 1910. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising and documentary prints depicting flowers, fruits, vegetables, and trees offered by various seed suppliers. These materials consist of color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 25 x 35 inches. Notable holdings include prints from seed merchants Briggs & Bro., Crosman Bros., and James Vick of Rochester, New York; D.M. Ferry & Co. of Detroit, Michigan; and Jerome B. Rice & Co. of Cambridge, New York.

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Series II. Fashion Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains 250 large-size printed items that pertain to fashion, clothing and dress, textiles, and sewing supplies from the 1830s through 1920, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1850-1890. The material consists of advertising prints, calendars, newspapers, periodicals and clippings, product labels, fashion plates, caricatures in prints and periodical illustrations, and other visual materials, and is grouped according to the primary business, trade, or service associated with the principal entity represented by the item. The series contains color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 34 x 48 inches.

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Series II. Fairs and Expositions Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains approximately 100 large-size printed items related to fairs and expositions in the United States from approximately 1834 to 1970, with the majority of items dating from 1850 to 1893. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints produced for fairs, exhibitions and expositions; exhibitors at these events; and related businesses. Genres represented include advertising prints, views of exhibition buildings, certificates, broadsides, and specialty newspapers and programs. The series contains color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 35 x 46 inches.

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Series II. Military prints and ephemera (large size)

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