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Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1888

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1888

GUSN

GUSN-274003

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Description

The image caption reads "American farmers firing the shots heard round the world." There is a portrait of John Hancock in the upper left corner of the illustration and an exterior view of the Hancock House in the lower right corner of the illustration.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
farmers
militias
battles
portraits
statesmen
governors
exterior views
houses
dwellings
calendars

Physical Description

1 calendar ; 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.13.01.002

Image Dimensions

14 1/2 x 11 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Adelaide Fowler, 11 October 1930.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Publisher)
Barnes, George Foster (Delineator)

Material Type

calendars

Other People

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Subjects

Revolutionary War
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775

Description Level

Item

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