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Title: Rice's popular flower seeds
Alternative Title: "The flower market." Or opening of the season.
Creator: Hirschberg, Alice, 1856-1930, artist
J. Ottman Lithographic Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of five young boys and girls playing and gathering flowers in baskets near a small wood table and chair in a field in an advertisement for Rice's seeds; flowers in margins.
"J. Ottmann Lith. Co. Puck Bldg. N.Y."--text, bottom right of image. "Alice Hirschberg"--text, artist.'s signature on stone, bottom right of image. "Copyrighted 1895 by Jerome B. Rice & Co. Cambridge Valley Seed gardens, Cambridge, N.Y."--text, bottom left of image. "Sure to grow."--text, left margin. "Are the best."--text, right margin. "One of these beautiful pictures without lettering or corner printing sent postpaid (in a tube), on receipt of 5 empty Flower Seed packets, or 15 cents in Stamps or Cash. Grown and put up by Jerome B. Rice & Co., Cambridge Valley Seed Gardens Cambridge, N.Y."--text, bottom margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 60.96 x 81.28 cm (24 x 32 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_HORT_002466
470550
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2951
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Seeds
Children--Pictorial works
Flowers--Pictorial works
Jerome B. Rice & Co
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Horticulture
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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