Image of an eye-level landscape view of a waterfront scene with people skating and sledding on ice and the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the distance, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of New Hampshire and a landscape of a stone quarry with workers, with busts of William Whipple and Josiah Bartlett, two signers of the Declaration of Independence. Probable date based on publication of image in William Brotherhead. The Centennial Book of Signers. Philadelphia : J.M. Stoddart & Co., 1875, copyright 1872. "163"--text, top right. "1776 / 1876"--text, upper corners of print. "Designed by W. Brotherhead."--text, bottom left margin. "H.J. Toudy & Co. Steam Lith."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 46.36 x 30.48 cm (18 1/4 x 12 in.)
Portsmouth (N.H.)--Pictorial works Waterfronts--Pictorial works Centennial celebrations Cities and towns--Pictorial works Ice skating--Pictorial works Leisure--Pictorial works Sleds--Pictorial works Quarries and quarrying--Pictorial works United States. Declaration of Independence--Commemoration Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Book illustrations. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection View Prints Large Size Northeast The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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