Harper’s November

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Harper’s November
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Image by Boston Public Library
Local Accession Number: 2012.AAP.255
Title: Harper’s November
Creator/Contributor: Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925 (artist)
Date issued: 1893 (inferred)
Physical description: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 45 x 32 cm.
Summary: A woman buys a magazine from a boy while sitting inside a horse-drawn carriage being driven by a man.
Genre: Book & magazine posters; Lithographs
Subjects: Men; Women; Horses; Carriages & coaches
Notes: Title from item.
Date note: Date from: American Art Posters of the 1890s in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection.
Statement of responsibility: Edward Penfield
Collection: American Art Posters 1890-1920
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.

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Image by BioDivLibrary
Everything for the garden..
New York :Peter Henderson & Co.,c1915..
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Image from page 189 of “Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man” (1736)
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Image by Internet Archive Book Images
Identifier: emblems00quar
Title: Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man
Year: 1736 (1730s)
Authors: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644
Subjects: Emblems –Early works to 1800. Emblem books, English –Great Britain –England –18th century Emblem books –Great Britain –England –18th century
Publisher: London : printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C Hitch, S. Ballard, J. Batley, and J. Wood, S. Birt, A. Ward, and J Clarke in Duck Lane
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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