Visual Materials

Series II. Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Description: This series contains mainly portrait prints, political cartoons, and political campaign promotional prints. Also included are certificates and illustrated materials promoting temperance, as well as a ballot from the election of 1912.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1802-1921
Call number: priJLC_POL
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Series I. Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera (small size)

Visual Materials

This series contains mainly trade cards, album card sets, election or rally tickets, and small-format portrait prints. Also included are some campaign and event ribbons, cigar box labels, and cigarette cards.

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Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Visual Materials

The Jay T. Last collection of politics and social issues prints and ephemera contains approximately 400 printed items from the United States from the 1800s to the 1950s, with the bulk of the items dating from 1850 to 1910. Most of these items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection includes commemorative portraits of United States presidents, political cartoons and caricatures, portraits of political candidates, album card sets, trade cards, election or rally tickets, and ribbons. The collection highlights both well-known and less recognized American political figures and activists of the 19th and early 20th centuries along with social causes and issues often linked to political activities, most notably the temperance movement. The images provide a rich visual resource for studying the history of American governance of citizens including national, state, and local laws, issues, elections, and causes, as well as a perspective on portraiture, caricatures, and political cartoons of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints and ephemera offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Jay T. Last Collection of Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera

Visual Materials

The Jay T. Last Collection of Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera contains approximately 400 printed items related to politics and social issues in the United States from the 1800s to the 1950s, with the bulk of the items dating from 1850 to 1910. Most of these items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (more than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and select small-size items are fully inventoried with printers, artists, and publishers indexed by name. The collection includes over 130 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographed commemorative portraits of United States presidents, political cartoons and caricatures, views of civic buildings and correctional facilities, and portraits of political candidates. Small-size items number approximately 270 and contain a variety of materials, including small-format portraits, album card sets, trade cards, election or rally tickets, and ribbons. The collection highlights both well-known and less recognized American political figures and activists of the 19th and early 20th centuries along with social causes and issues often linked to political activities, most notably the temperance movement. The images provide a rich visual resource for studying the history of American governance of citizens including national, state, and local laws, issues, elections, and causes, as well as a perspective on portraiture, caricatures, and political cartoons of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints and ephemera offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Other Politicians and Misc. Ephemera (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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Series II. Beverage Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains approximately 65 large-size advertising and promotional items related to beverage industries in the United States from approximately 1841 to the 1940s, with the majority of items spanning from 1850 to 1912. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints produced for beverage distilleries, manufacturers, and distributors. Genres represented include advertising prints, views of factories and storefronts, and product labels for tea, coffee, and spirits. The prints are mostly color-printed lithographs, but the series also includes uncolored and hand-colored images. Among the earliest items is an uncolored depiction of the four-story storefront of tea and coffee merchants Hawthorn & Company from after 1841 (BEV_001209). The most recent item is a die-cut circular product label for Radio Food Corp. roller process skim milk powder from circa the 1940s (BEV_001859).

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Series II. Large size prints and ephemera

Visual Materials

This series consists of approximately 67 large sized broadsides, relief prints, intaglio prints, leaflets, lithographs, and other items relating to fireworks, lottery schemes, sports, recreational activities, games and toys in the United States. Dating from approximately 1839 to approximately 1905, images include people horse racing, ice skating, roller skating, fishing, hunting, swimming, and playing indoor games. Also included are promotional advertisements for fireworks, lottery drawings, and sports related products.

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Series II. Politics and Social Issues Prints and Ephemera (large size)

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