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Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1898

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Collection Type

  • art

Date

1898

GUSN

GUSN-274041

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Description

The central image is the Sons of Liberty celebrating the repeal of the Stamp Act, August 14,1766 around the Liberty Tree. The lower right corner of the image has a tablet marking the location of the Tree at Essex and Washington Streets. The calendar has tear off pages for the months July-December 1898.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insurance
statesmen
governors
trees
chromolithographs
calendars

Physical Description

1 print on paper mounted on board : chromolithograph ; 16 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.13.01.009

Image Dimensions

16 1/4 x 13 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)
Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company (Lithographer)

Material Type

chromolithographs
calendars

Other People

Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815

Subjects

Liberty Tree (Boston, Mass.)
Liberty trees
Sons of Liberty
Essex Street (Boston, Mass.)
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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