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Title: Century magazine Christmas number
Creator: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1891
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement for The Century Christmas Number featuring women in Classical garb and small children flanking an open book as parts of an elaborate decorative border.
Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith (1870-1950). "Louis J. Rhead INV"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "December Christmas Stories By Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Frank R. Stockton, Marry Hallock Foote, and others... Magnificently Illustrated. 1891 The Century Co. Union Square New York."--text, center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 66.04 x 48.58 cm (26 x 19 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003282
502411
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5396
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Periodicals
Children--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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