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  • Blacksmith

    Blacksmith

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    Image of a blacksmith's shop with blacksmith at center hammering out horseshoes on an anvil while an adolescent boy stokes the fire with bellows at left; a man hammers horseshoes onto a horse in background at right.

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  • Awarded to Robert Crane by the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society

    Awarded to Robert Crane by the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society

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    Image of a certificate from the Sonoma County Agricultural and Mechanical Society of California with three farming and labor vignettes depicting cattle in a field, smiths working at an anvil, and women and girls with fruit baskets harvesting in an orchard; arch of flowers, fruit, vegetables, and grain topped with an eagle on a globe makes a decorative border for the certificate text.

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  • [Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate]

    [Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate]

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    Image of a Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate decorated with several vignettes depicting army and navy battle scenes, soldiers and sailors, and a pair of deathbed scenes; goddess Columbia with American eagle, Union shield, American flag, and laurel wreath at top center; G.A.R. badge with flag and wreath at bottom center.

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  • Exposition souvenir

    Exposition souvenir

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    Image of five vignettes featuring buildings and architectural details in an exposition souvenir print distributed as an art supplement to the October 5, 1899, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, presumably for the National Export Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September to December of 1899; a bald eagle with wings outstretched standing on a hammer and anvil is pictured at top center above the central framed image of a large columned building; a small vignette at bottom center portrays an exhibition scene with domed structures imitating the Far East, a Native American tipi, and people in ethnic costume riding camels and elephants.

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  • City of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania: Loan of the city of Philadelphia. Certificate No. 3944

    City of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania: Loan of the city of Philadelphia. Certificate No. 3944

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    Image of a municipal loan certificate issued by the City of Philadelphia and made out in manuscript to Henry A. Snyder on September 5, 1878, with signatures of the president, cashier, and transfer officer of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank and the Philadelphia City Controller, future Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison; eight surrounding vignettes including a view of Independence Hall, and the adjacent Old City Hall building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at top center; head-and-shoulder portraits of George Washington, at upper left, Benjamin Franklin, at lower left, Henry Clay, at upper right, and William Penn, at lower right; and vignettes of a blacksmith standing before an anvil and hammer, at center left, and a young barefoot woman holding sheaves of grain above her head with a scythe behind her.

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  • Scribner's : the last quarter-century in America

    Scribner's : the last quarter-century in America

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    Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine; mostly nude male figure wearing a laurel wreath and billowing fabric head covering holds a large torch aloft; shield printed with stars and stripes at bottom right.

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