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1870
Vertical file 4: OVR 51-60
GUSN-198996
This black and white print shows several scenes advertising both Travelers' Insurance and Louis Prang's chromoslithographs: " Prang's American chromos are exact fac-similes of oil paintings. For sale at all art stores." Included in the examples of "chromos" is John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barefoot Boy."
advertisements
insurance
chromolithographers
chromolithographs
prints (visual works)
wood engravings (prints)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number 59OVR
1 wood engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.02.059
20 x 14.5 (HxW)(inches)
Hartford (Hartford county, Connecticut)
L. Prang & Co. (Engraver)
prints (visual works)
wood engravings (prints)
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Travelers Insurance Companies
Fair -- many tears in the margins
Item
Vertical file 4: OVR 51-60
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