Image of a landscape scene on an advertisement for the first exhibition of the Mechanic Association of Middlesex, Massachusetts, showing the rural outskirts of a town with the buildings spreading out along the horizon line in an elaborate frame of sculpted flowers, leaves, and Classical figures; arm holding a hammer with scales with the caption "We aim to be just" across top of image; five small vignettes inset into the frame show a Native American man armed with bow and arrows, industrial scenes with machinery, and pastoral American West scenes with tipis. Single-color print. "Tappan & Bradford's Lithogy. Boston."--text, bottom right margin. "... for the encouragement of the mechanic arts and manufactures, / will be opened in the City of Lowell, on Tuesday, Sept. 16th., 1851, / at a spacious building erected for the purpose near the Lowell Machine Shop. / Persons engaged in all branches of manufacture, Science, and Art, are cordially invited to contribute to the exhibition. ... Please post and let this sheet remain in a conspicuous place until after the exhibition."--text, center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 60.64 x 47.94 cm (23 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Cities and towns--Pictorial works Exhibitions Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Pictorial works Tipis--Pictorial works Middlesex Mechanic Association Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Fairs & Expositions Large Size General Fairs and Expositions The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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