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Title
D. M. Ferry & Co's standard seeds
Creator
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.), printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a woman wearing a long dress and straw hat seated at a table surrounded by a variety of vegetables, fruit, and flowers in bunches, barrels, and baskets in an advertisement for seeds sold by D. M. Ferry & Company of Detroit, Michigan.
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Calvert operated under the name The Calvert Lith. Co. beginning in 1867. "The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit."--text, bottom left margin. "Always the best."--text, bottom center of image
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 63.5 x 51.12 cm (25 x 20 1/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_HORT_002440
412859
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2965
Language
English
Subject
Advertising--Seeds
Fruit--Pictorial works
Flowers--Pictorial works
Vegetables--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
D.M. Ferry & 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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