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Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1896

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Collection Type

  • art

Date

1896

GUSN

GUSN-274038

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Description

The image caption reads "Sunset, July 4th 1776. John Hancock announcing that the Declaration has been signed." The left side of the image has an exterior veiw of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
group portraits
statesmen
governors
exterior views
chromolithographs
calendars

Physical Description

1 print on paper mounted on board : chromolithograph ; 16 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.13.01.007

Image Dimensions

16 1/4 x 13 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Adelaide Fowler, 11 October 1930.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania)

Record Details

Originator

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Publisher)
Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company (Lithographer)

Material Type

chromolithographs
calendars

Other People

Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Subjects

United States. Declaration of Independence

Description Level

Item

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