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United States of America. No. 255,168 to all to whom these presents shall come:

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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
Type
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Date
1882
Call number
priJLC_PRG_002322
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 Louis Prang archive was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people
Allen, Grace Barton. (1823-1903.)
Anderson, Sophie, (1815-1885.)
Ansdell, Richard, (1822-1898.)
Bartholomew, William N. (1842-)
Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, (1830-1902.)
Bierstadt, Albert, (1837-1908.)
Bleischwitz, J. (1834-1923.)
Bonsall, M. W. (1831-1913.)
Borsigian, B. H. (1850-1936.)
Bricher, Alfred Thompson, (1817-1907.)
Bridges, Fidelia, (1842-1924.)
Brown, John George, (1816-1890.)
Brown, Matilda. (1489?-1534.)
Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta, (1853-1894.)
Bruith, A. (1832-1895.)
Callowhill, James. (1822-1895.)
Callowhill, Sidney. (1819-1914.)
Chamberlin, Grace M. (1796-1886.)
Champney, Benjamin, (1824 or 1825-1896.)
Church, Frederick S. (1838-1874.)
Comins, Elizabeth B. (-1900.)
Coomans, J. (1850-1913.)
Correggio, (1811-1894.)
Cruickshank, W. (1828-1901.)
Davidson, Julian Oliver, (1829-1908.)
De Haas, Mauritz Frederik Hendrik, (1859-1952.)
Dougal, William H., (1824-1906.)
Duffield, Mary Elizabeth, (1864-1931.)
Durand, A. B. (1832-1920.)
Edmonds, S. C. (1861-1929.)
Eglau, (1839-1908.)
Fausel, D. (1802-1873.)
Ferguson, H. A. (1855-1911.)
Field, L. B. (1813-1886.)
Fisher, Ellen T. (active 1857-1875.)
Fortuny, Mariano, (1840-1901.)
Gifford, John, (1854-1913.)
Girardet, Eugene. (1853-1921.)
Granbery, V. (1840-1902.)
Harlow, Louis K. (1837-1898.)
Harring, W. (1851-1919.)
Hart, James McDougal, (1842-1935.)
Hart, Mary Theresa. (1854-1932.)
Hatfield (1850-)
Hill, Thomas, (1782 or 1783-1841.)
Hills, Laura Coombs, (1849-1924.)
Johnson, Eastman, (-1929.)
Jourdain, Henri, (1857-1926.)
Key, John Ross, (1861-1945.)
Klein, Catharina, (1829-1906.)
Knobel, Edward, (1819-1905.)
Landseer, Edwin, (1848-1930.)
Lautenberger, Ferd. (1847-1915.)
Lee, J. (1808-1887.)
Longpré, Paul de, (1840-1902.)
Marecek, Frank J. (1839-1923.)
Mazzanovich, J. (1846-1919.)
Metz, Aug. C. (1844-1919.)
Meyer, A. C. (1852-1923.)
Meyer, Johann Georg,
Moore, Nina,
Moradei, Arturo,
Moser, James Henry,
Murphy, John Francis,
Nast, Thomas,
Niles, George E.,
Nowak, E.,
Nowell, Annie C.
Ochtman, Leonard.
Palmer, Walter Launt,
Parker, Elizabeth F.
Parsons, A. Wilde.
Penniman, John Ritto,
Pilule.
Pope, Alexander,
Post, May Audubon,
Rebholtz, WIlliam.
Rhead, Louis,
Rigby, Burnham.
Rigolot, A.
Robinson, Will S.,
Ryan, C.
Sandorff, G.
Schroeder, Friedrich
Stone, Benjamin Bellows Grant,
Stumm, Maud.
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam,
Thulstrup, Thure de,
Turner, Ross,
Tyler, James G.
Wyngaerdt, A. J. van
Vibert, J. G.
Wagner, E.
Wagner, K.
Waugh, Ida,
Welch, Thaddeus,
Wells, Newton A.
Whitney, Olive E.
Associated organizations
Annin & Smith.
Bee Publishing Co.
C.C. Corbett & Co.
J.E. Purdy & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
L. Prang & Co.
Lamson, Wolffe & Co.
National Bank Note Company.
Prang Company.
Prang Educational Company.
Scientific Pub. Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Taber Prang Art Co.
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