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An illustrated showcard on yellow cardstock advertising fuel products for sale by Stott & Co.'s Pioneer Camphene Distillery. Central image features a woodcut of the company's oil factory and distillation buildings located by the San Francisco Bay. Lower left of image includes a signature of the engraver D. [Durbin] Van Vleck. Text below the image details the various fuels for sale, describes the company's new distillation factory, and includes specifics about increased fuel production. The bottom right corner lists the printer as "News Letter Job Print, 124 Sacramento, Street."
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A digital print on Classic Crest paper of a figure in Alison Saar's monument, the Salon, installed at the Charles Aznavour Garden in Paris, France, for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The print depicts the central figure of the sculptural installation, a Black woman seated and resting an olive branch on her lap with her left hand, while holding up an Olympic flame with her right hand. The image includes relief print markings and is printed in white, black, blue, and brown ink. The border below the image includes the edition number 225 of 350 on the lower left, the title "Salon" in the lower center, and is signed and dated by stamp "A. Saar 2024" in the lower right.
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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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In remembrance of the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United States
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Image of the goddess Columbia seated with a laurel wreath in hand surrounded by American flags with an American eagle in the Union shield near her feet; portraits of the United States presidents from 1776-1876 and Revolutionary War generals curve around the central image of Columbia; an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 at top center with closer views of Independence Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and Faneuil Hall inset; contrasting vignettes of a Revolutionary War battlefield and a prosperous agrarian and industrial scene captioned "The Struggle for Liberty" and "Peace and Prosperity" at lower left and right.
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In remembrance of the one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the United States
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Black Valley railroad
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Image of a mock train schedule poster promoting temperance by warning of the effects of alcohol and smoking; train with "Distillery" locomotive and bar car showing people drinking inside pulls away from "Drunkards Curve" station towards a dark area full of demons; horse-drawn ambulance vehicles pick up passengers who have disembarked; diagrams of a stomach in various states of decline due to alcohol consumption at left and right center of print.
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