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Horse Shoe Bar : Bill & Tillie

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Description: A business card advertising the Horse Shoe Bar in Texas City, Texas on recto, and an advertisement for a laundress seeking work on verso. Text on recto reads, "'The largest bar in town,' Horse Shoe Bar: Bill & Tillie. No Filipinos or colored served. Taxi service day or night. Phone 173, Texas City, Texas." Recto also includes the emblem for the Galveston Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label in lower center. Text on verso reads, "August I. Mrs. Marshall, Laundress at home, 7 p.m. Work good. First class. Satisfaction guaranteed. Price $2.00."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1935-1947.
Call number: priPEF 44
Provenance: Purchased from Michael Maslan Vintage Posters, Photographs, Postcards & Ephemera, February 2024.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Phoenix Horse Shoe Co

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Image of two elevated views of the Phoenix Horse Shoe factories, one in Poughkeepsie, New York, showing factory buildings with smoke stacks, locomotives, and ships at the dock, and one in Joliet, Illinois, showing the factory buildings with smoke stacks and locomotives; framed with horseshoes.

priJLC_AGR_000641

Globe horse shoe nail Boston

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Image of an advertisement for horse shoe nails manufactured by the Globe Nail Company of Boston, Massachusetts; four vignettes illustrate interior and exterior views of the Globe nail factory, including workers laboring in the manufactory; two smaller images contrast nail manufacturing in 1776 and 1876; testimonials and list of suppliers at center.

priJLC_AGR_001840

Niagara Falls. No. 2. View of the Horse Shoe fall from Goat Island

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Image of a landscape view of Niagara Falls Horse Shoe waterfall from Goat Island in New York; a couple points and admires the falls at right.

priJLC_VIEW_004019

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Horticultural drawings of camellias

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A set of eight illustrations depicting varieties of camellias in bloom and an accompanying text card. Six of the eight illustrations include either pasted textual descriptions of the flowers on the verso or handwritten notes on the recto. Some of the illustrations are dated and include descriptions for "Camellia Japonica; Christine Lee; Candidissima; Fanny Bolis; and Mathotiana Rubra." The printed text card reads, "Original horticultural drawings made for J. Horace McFarland. 1930-1934. Well known as the 'Rose Doctor,' the great horticulturalist J. Horace McFarland was also responsible for the City Beautiful Movement in America. These drawings are lovely and unique artifacts of his grand enthusiasm for flowers and art." The illustrations are hand colored, done in crayon, pencil, and colored pencil in varying shades of red, white, and pink, with green leaves, yellow stamen, and brown stems. The dates on the individual illustrations range from 1933 to 1935, and do not all match the dates on the accompanying text card. The artist is unknown, but the drawings were likely created as reference or possible publication for J. Horace McFarland.

priPEF 107

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Welbeck. Paragon un Barbe

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A hand-colored engraving depicting a view of Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire, the private home of William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, from 1617 to 1676. The central image in the foreground depicts an African man holding the reins of a brown Barbary horse in front of the main façade and entryway of Welbeck Abbey. The background imagery includes branches, stones, trees, and flying birds. Text on top of the print reads, "Welbeck." Text on the bottom of the print reads, "Paragon un Barbe." To the right of the image, decorative text in French reads, "La Maison de Welbeck appartenant a Monseigneur le Marquis de Newcastle, le quel est dans la Province de Nottingham." Signed on lower right corner, by artist, "Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit," and by engraver, "Petr. van Lisebelten sculpsit." Print was originally published as the sixth plate of Cavendish's "A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses..." (either 1658 print or later editions), and is the source of the approximate date.

priPEF 94

Established 1856 fashion plate 1878 Henry Arthur manufacturer of boot & shoe uppers

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Image of a variety of shoe, boot, and gaiter styles for men and women with name and number key text below each shoe style; vignettes to the left and right portray a woman seated in an armchair being helped into her button boots by a lady's maid, and a seated man putting on shoes with the help of an African American servant; image of Henry Arthur's business building and storefront at center of print advertising "leather & findings boot & shoe uppers."

priJLC_FASH_001666

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