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Standard eye colors. Shades of brown

Description
Image of an advertisement for a variety of shades of brown and blue colored glass eyes from Queen & Co. Oculists & Opticians of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; twelve rows of glass eyes in a grid.
Type
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Date
©1891
Call number
priJLC_MED_002617
Creator
Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the medicine prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
Associated people
Anderson, Walter W. (1807-1875.)
Aspinwall, Horatio G. (1819-1896.)
Bannan, Benjamin, (1824-)
Crosby, Charles H., (1807-1883.)
Haehnlen, Jacob, (approximately 1824-)
Hanford, Albert,
Hawkins, Ezekiel C.
King, W. A.
Reed, Edwin O.,
Shields, C.
Stevens, H. R.
Thoubboron, J.
Tobin, M. F.
Associated organizations
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Cosack & Co.
Hop Pill Mf'g Co.
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company.
Longacre & Co.
Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Samuel Bowles and Company.
Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith.
Theo. Leonhardt & Son.
Thomas & Eno.
William H. Forbes & Company.
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