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Title: The best guide to Boston
Creator: Reed, Ethel, 1874-1912, artist
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 an advertisement for the Boston Illustrated city guide featuring a woman wearing a long dress with puffed sleeves walking while reading the city guide to Boston, Massachusetts; Boston Capitol Building in background at left.
Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith (1870-1950). "Ethel Reed"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "Compliments of Ethel Reed 1895"--text, artist's signature handwritten in ink, verso.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 48.1 x 30.48 cm (18 15/16 x 12 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003177
502555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5218
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Books
Capitols--Pictorial works
Reading--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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