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Title
United States patent office. Louis Prang, of Boston, Massachusetts. Letters patent no. 104,996, dated July 5, 1870
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 issued to lithographer Louis Prang for improvement in library shears, with specification of his invention and detailed descriptions of the various parts of the shears.
Type
image
Extent
1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 39.05 x 26.99 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_PRG_002320
479747
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3509
Language
English
Subject
Prang, Louis, 1824-1909
Patents
Scissors and shears
Relief 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_002318 ; priJLC_PRG_002319 ; priJLC_PRG_004360

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