Imitation bank note promising "to cut any lady or gentleman's hair superior to any man in Europe ...".
Description:
Title engraved at top of sheet., 'No. 49' is inscribed twice over the text in the fashion of a stamp's impression., "One hundred"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's history., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Lorillard Tobacco Company
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Smokeless tobacco, Tobacco chewing, and Men
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
Description:
Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimonial below it. The verso of each mount carries a photographic print of an image created by Andrew J. Russell. The exception is the last mount, which carries a photographic advertisement for BD Sea Fowl Guano on the recto of the mount and no photographic print on the verso. The images by Russell document landscape views and buildings along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah, ca. 1867-1869. Many images of landscapes include men and women posited in the terrain to provide scale, An image shows a view of Echo, Utah, as well as rock outcroppings in its vicinity, including Hanging Rock, Monument Rock, and Sphinx Rock, Images of locations in the Weber River Valley, Utah, include views of Coalville city, Devil's Gate, Tunnel No. 4, Bridge No. 32, and of the Mormon Turnpike Bridge at the mouth of the canyon, Images of Wyoming include views of a large windmill at Laramie; Granite Canyon from a water tank; High Bluffs in the Black Buttes area; and an overview of the Laramie River Valley, as well as railroad cuts consisting of the Burning Rock Cut and Hall's Cut (identified in a caption as the Great Mountain Pass)., An image of Omaha, Nebraska, shows a street leading to the Missouri River, An image shows a group of people during the laying of the last rail connecting the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad on May 10, 1869, near Promontory, Utah, and Sixteen plates without mounted photographic prints in the volume contain graphical advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company including BD Sea Fowl Guano, Bradley's Super Phosphate of Lime, C. C. Coe's Ammoniated Super Phosphate of Lime, Carolina Fertilizer, and Palmetto Soluble Acid Phosphate, as well as powdered raw bones and dissolved unburnt bones
Description:
Title from cover., Autograph on front board of Frank E. Taylor., Twenty photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's, The Great West illustrated . . . New York, 1869., and Photographic prints measure 13 x 7 cm.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., West (U.S.), Coalville (Utah), Echo (Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Russell, Andrew J., Williams, George Walton, 1820-1903., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Central Pacific Railroad Company, Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Advertising, Agriculture, Fertilizer industry, and Railroads
Printed broadside advertising medicinal powders, oils, and other remedies offered by Hans Smit, 16th century
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Accompanying typescript note: "One of two copies used as end papers in a copy in contemporary binding of "Sermons of Master John Calvin upon the book of Job" translated out of the French by Arthur Golding. / Colophon: Imprinted at London. Henrie Binneman for Lucas Harrison & George Bishop. Anno. 1574. / These broadsides were noticed in August 1919 and taken out.", and In English.
A shop card with allegorical figures and a banner with the motto "In nocte laetamur" etched in a banner below the figures and above text
Alternative Title:
Harrison's tobacco paper
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from Paulson., Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35., and On page 3 in volume 1. Sheet 95 x 70 mm.
Title and publisher from item., Funded by the Tobacco Tax Initiative., A parody of the "Marlboro man" cigarette ads., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Caption title., "London, Sept. 1817."--Lower left corner., With the facsimile signature of Andrew Johnstone in lower right., First paragraph: Johnstone's purified Windsor soap, in consequence of being freed from the alkaline salts, corrosive substances, and blistering particles, which soaps in general contain, will be found to render the skin beautifully white, soft, and smooth; and is particularly recommended to Ladies, whose skins are delicate., and For further information, consult library staff.
Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., On each lottery puff: Lottery begins drawing 12th January, 1820., and Includes puff numbers 1347-1370: John Bull, Sukey Salmon, Alderman Turtle, Queen, Tabby Turnip, Billy Bantam, Polly Pigface, Molly Maid, Toby Fillpot, The Grand Turk, Colly Calf-head, John Dory, Pomposa Pine-apple, Doughy Upper-crust, Dolly Dumpling, Timothy Tun-Belly, Simon Sheepface, King, Cissy Cowslip, Letty Lambkin, Dame Partlett, Kitty Cabbage, Giddy Goosecap, Solomon Sirloin.
Publisher:
J. & J. Sivewright ... 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Lotteries, Marketing, Advertising, Caricatures and cartoons, and Animals in human situations
Caption title., Date based on the watermark on the copy in the British Library., At foot of the first page: "Sold by the proprietor, G. Packwood, 16, Gracechurch-street London.", On the verso: "Vended in London by the following perfumers" and "Vended in the country by the following perfumers.", and Sheet trimmed close on left margin with loss of beginning characters in the first column of names on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Barbershops, Razors, Advertising, Perfumes industry, and Perfumes
