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Title
Geburts-und Tauf-Schein
Alternative Title
Birth and baptism certificate.
Creator
Schäfer und Koradi, publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1875
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 birth and baptism certificate; baby being baptized by a priest at top center with several people looking on near the baptismal basin; elaborate decorative frame for text with vignettes of a man being baptized, tablets with the Ten Commandments, a chalice and cross, Jesus Christ speaking to a group of children, doves with Bible verses on banners, and a cross and anchor.
Date supplied by cataloger based on item text. "Published by Schäfer & Koradi, S.W. 4th. & Wood Sts. Philada."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : color printed ; overall 38.74 x 31.12 cm (15 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_REL_002915
418209
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4920
Language
English
German
German
Subject
Babies--Pictorial works
Baptism--Pictorial works
Bible stories--Pictorial works
Crosses--Pictorial works
Jesus Christ--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Religion
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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