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On a peach ground with black lettering and one line filled in with bold wide-lettered red paint, with pointing hands drawn at either side of this line, is a sign which contains an inscription.
signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
pressboard
advertisements
Particle Board
Oil on Panel
Pencil
Advertisement
SIGN
Text of the sign: TONIGHT ONLY!!!/ a Magic Lantern Exhibition/ of/ FOLK ART/ combining amusement with instruction/ and moral purpose/ PORTRAITS LANDSCAPES/ WEATHERVANES SIGNS/ Etc., etc./ presented by the celebrated lecturer from/ the Massachusetts Bay Colony, N. Engl./ NINA FLETCHER LITTLE
Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-1993
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
30 x 23.75 x 0.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1084
Massachusetts (United States)
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