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Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1897

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Collection Type

  • art

Date

1897

GUSN

GUSN-274040

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Description

The item has a portrait of John Hancock, two views of Faneuil Hall (1763, 1896), the Massachusetts seal, lottery tickets and the grasshopper weathervane.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
portraits
statesmen
governors
exterior views
assembly halls
marketplaces
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

EP001.13.01.008

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)

Record Details

Originator

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Publisher)

Material Type

chromolithographs
calendars

Other People

Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815

Description Level

Item

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