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Item is a nature print depicting various molts of the skin of a Coluber natrix, a European grass snake. Text in German below the image reads, "Natureselbstdruck. Aus der k.k. Hof - und Staatsdruckerei zu Wien. 1853."
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Ablagerungshaut einer Coluber natrix
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Item is a nature print depicting a molt of the skin from the tail of a Coluber natrix, a European grass snake. Text in German below the image reads, "Ablagerungshaut einer Coluber natrix. Natureselbstdruck. Aus der k.k. Hof - u. Staats- Druckerei. Wien. 1853."
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Air mail across the Pacific : San Francisco to Hong Kong
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A black-and-white print published by the San Francisco Post Office advertising its trans-Pacific airmail service. The title of the print is in English, with Chinese text on the lower half describing how airmail was shipped from San Francisco to Honolulu, Guam, Manila, Macao, and Hong Kong. Text in Chinese also lists the postage rates and total duration of the flights varying by destination. The center of the print features Clyde H. Sunderland's aerial photograph of Pan American Airway's "China Clipper" flying over San Francisco, California. The top and bottom of the print include borders decorated with monoplane motifs. The printed signature at the lower center reads, "San Francisco P.O. 9-30-37-500."
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Haight is love : summer is a love in-here
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A color offset lithograph announcing the Summer of Love movement held in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. In psychedelic font, the text reads, "Haight is love: summer is a love-in here." Most of the text is in a bold green color set against a red-and-orange background. The word "love" is overlaid in black-and-white with details from Jost Amman's woodcut, "Quibus eo sane, Ordine Doctrina..." (1572). The word "is" in the title is centered by mirroring purple-and-green decorative images of a nude man and woman in an embrace. The bottom left of the print includes the date of copyright and reads, "UFO Posters. 1608 Haight Street. San Francisco, Calif." Bottom right includes an image of the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union (LPIU) emblem and text that reads "Printed by Double-H Press." Signed by the artist, John Dolley [Dulley?] on the right of the image.
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San Francisco. From California Street. Drawn from a daguerrotype [sic], the property of Eug. Delessert Esq.re
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A black-and-white panoramic lithograph view of San Francisco, California. The print was drawn from a daguerreotype by photographer Eugène Delessert, printed by Parisian lithograph firm Imprimerie Lemercier, and published by M. [Michele] Knoedler. The print shows San Francisco's California St. with Yerba Buena Harbor and Island in the center, and Telegraph Hill and Alcatraz Island on the left. Scenery includes sailboats, building structures, horses, and figures in a variety of dress. Text below center of image reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by M. Knoedler, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Printer signature reads "Imp. Lemercier, Paris" in lower right corner. Title is printed in the lower center in a cursive font.
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Item No. 21. Globe Aérostatique. De Mrs. Charles et Robert, Au Moment de leur depart du Jardin des Tuileriea, le 1er. Xbre. 1783
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[print] Artist(s): Duperreux; L. Boutelou. Printer /Publisher text: "Se vend chez le Graveur Rue Ste. Hiacinte vis-à-vis le Jeu de Paume. A Paris." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1363.
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