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Class 129, to be drawn in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, July 31st, 1860

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Title: Class 129, to be drawn in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, July 31st, 1860
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
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 a broadside listing information about lottery prizes, rewards, and ticket pricing for a lottery drawing taking place on July 31st, 1860 in Wilmington, Delaware. Whole tickets for the drawing are sold for five dollars, half tickets for two dollars and fifty cents, and quarter tickets for one dollar and twenty-five cents. The scheme on the print also lists totals of "32.396 prizes, ... amounting to $281.861." The rewards and title information are printed in bold. Towards the bottom of the print is an image of two hands shown pointing at text listing the rules of the lottery.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 40.8 x 14.76 cm (16 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_SPO_003565
494818
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5603
Subject: Lotteries--United States
Selling--Lottery tickets
Advertising--Lotteries
Broadsides. (gmgpc)
Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place: Wilmington (Del.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sports & Leisure
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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