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The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come

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Title: The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come
Creator: National Bank Note Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1870
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 letters patent certificate "No. 104996" issued to lithographer Louis Prang certifying he "invented a new and useful improvement in library shears" dated July 5, 1870; goddess Columbia with American flag and bald eagle at the center of a scene featuring the industrial and agrarian sides of the United States; woman at left cards wool near a spinning wheel with machinery and an industrial city behind her; man at right holds a hand scythe and watches another farmer harvest a field with a horse team and machinery; official seal and ribbon at bottom left.
"National Bank Note Company, New York."--text, center of certificate below image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 39.05 x 26.99 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002318
479745
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3507
Language: English
Subject: Columbia (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works
Prang, Louis, 1824-1909
Patents
Scissors and shears
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Patents. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_PRG_002319 ; priJLC_PRG_002320 ; priJLC_PRG_004360

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