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Irwin & Co., lottery and exchange brokers, no. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore

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Title: Irwin & Co., lottery and exchange brokers, no. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore
Creator: Murphy & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1854
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 ticketing pricing for a drawing organized by Irwin & Co. taking place at Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland on Wednesday, July 19th, 1854. Prize rewards range from $20,000 to $60,000. Five columns separate the different schemes and earnings of the drawings. Towards the top left corner is an image from an engraving of a view of Barnum's City Hotel in Maryland. The advertisement for the event is printed twice on one page.
"Irwin & Co. No. 8 Basement Barnum's City Hotel, Baltimore." --text, printed twice right corner. "Murphy & Co. Printers & Stationers, 178 Market St. Balt." --text, right center. "Murphy & Co. Printers, 178 Market St. Balt." --text, bottom right. "[illegible] Bros. S.E." -- text, printed twice, right corner of engraving.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 43.18 x 25.88 cm (17 x 10 3/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_SPO_003563
494815
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5583
Subject: Lotteries
Advertising--Lotteries
Selling--Lottery tickets
Hotels--Pictorial works
Irwin & Co
Broadsides. (gmgpc)
Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
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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