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Title: St. Louis Beef Canning Co.'s cooked corned beef St. Louis
Creator: August Gast & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
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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 man seated at a dining table being served canned corned beef by an African American waiter in an advertisement for St. Louis Beef Canning Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
Date supplied by cataloger based on company and printer history; St. Louis Beef Canning Company first appears in directories in 1877, and August Gast's printing company changes names after his death in 1887. "A. Gast & Co. St. Louis."--text, bottom center margin. "Nothing like it."--text, center left of image. "Ready for table use."--text, center right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 33.97 x 26.99 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_FOOD_001974
418306
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4040
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Food
African Americans--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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