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Certificate of subscription

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1876

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 271-280

GUSN

GUSN-250421

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Description

Certificate presented to The Honorable Nathan Appleton of Boston, Mass., for subscribing to the "fund raised by Americans at home and abroad for the purchase and presentation to the City of Paris of a bronze reproduction of the original model of M. Auguste Bartholdi's Mammoth Statue of Liberty Englightening the World presented by France to the United States."

Details

Descriptive Terms

patrons
international relations
international organizations
statues
certificates
chromotypes (color prints)

Physical Description

1 certificate

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Reference Code

GC002.02.279

Image Dimensions

21 x 17 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Paris (Ville de Paris department, Île-de-France, France)

Record Details

Originator

Union franco-américaine (Issuing body)
Fernique, Charles (Lithographer)

Material Type

certificates
chromotypes (color prints)

Other People

Appleton, Nathan
Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1834-1904

Subjects

Revolutionary War
Statue of Liberty

Restrictions

Fair condition, missing most of the bottom of the print

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 271-280

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