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Title: Louis Prang. Library shears
Alternative 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 diagram of a pair of library shears for patent number "104996" invented by Louis Prang; signatures of witnesses, inventor, and patent attorneys Munn & Co. below diagram; letters patent certificate issued to lithographer Louis Prang for improvement in library shears affixed to verso.
Type: image
Extent: 1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 39.37 x 26.04 cm (15 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_004360
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3300
Language: English
Subject: Patents
Scissors and shears--Pictorial works
Intaglio 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_002320

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