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Item is a nature print depicting a molt of the skin from the tail of a Coluber natrix, a European grass snake. Text in German below the image reads, "Ablagerungshaut einer Coluber natrix. Natureselbstdruck. Aus der k.k. Hof - u. Staats- Druckerei. Wien. 1853."
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Group of people in front of Deauville Club in Santa Monica
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A group of people on the beach in bathing suits with a Deauville life guard in front of the Deauville Club in Santa Monica, California. The Club Casa del Mar can be seen in the middle of the image and the edge of the Hippodrome on the Santa Monica Pier is at the right edge. A building with a sign that reads "Hotel and Apts" is seen in middle left of image.
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Haight is love : summer is a love in-here
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A color offset lithograph announcing the Summer of Love movement held in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. In psychedelic font, the text reads, "Haight is love: summer is a love-in here." Most of the text is in a bold green color set against a red-and-orange background. The word "love" is overlaid in black-and-white with details from Jost Amman's woodcut, "Quibus eo sane, Ordine Doctrina..." (1572). The word "is" in the title is centered by mirroring purple-and-green decorative images of a nude man and woman in an embrace. The bottom left of the print includes the date of copyright and reads, "UFO Posters. 1608 Haight Street. San Francisco, Calif." Bottom right includes an image of the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union (LPIU) emblem and text that reads "Printed by Double-H Press." Signed by the artist, John Dolley [Dulley?] on the right of the image.
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Printing and lithographic establishment: Hunckle & Son
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A color lithographed trade card promoting Hunckel & Son's services within the printing industry through text and illustrated vignettes. Text on top of the image reads "Printing and Lithographic Establishment," and the central image includes two allegorical figures shaking hands above a banner that reads "Hunckel & Son" in gold, with George and Otto Hunckel's signatures below. The center of the card is embossed with the United States seal, and the card is bordered with putti representing the branches of art and science such as lithography, engraving, typography, and photography. The bottom of the card reads "The blessings of the graphic sciences over all the nations of the world," and includes stylistic representations of men in different cultural attire. The border edges of the card are printed in gold.
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The high-priz'd pin-box: This damsel she doth set great store, by her pin-box fine and rare but every ordinary whore, hath got suck kind of ware. To the tune of, Let every man with cap in hand, &c
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ESTC N68227 ; Verse - "I Have a gallant Pin-Box," ; In this edition, the text is in four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two columns. The first and second columns are separated by an ornamental rule, as are the third and fourth columns. The last line of text reads: "As long as they can stare."
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