Visual Resources for Illustrative Purposes

Items

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  Pekin Tea Company Advertisement

  Advertisement in the Charter Oak New Series v. 2, no. 13, p. 3 (April 1, 1847).
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  Perpetual Change lyric

  Back cover of The Yes Album (1971) with lyric from song "Perpetual Change"
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  Real Live Cats are Better than Mummy Cats

  Interesting tidbit of Egyptology
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  Telephoning

  A poem about a girl playing at using a "telephone" with her mother
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  The Christmas Tree

  Two-page spread with Christmas tree and a young girl showing it off. Note that to enter it into his scrapbook, George S. Burleigh had to overlap the pages.
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  The Deer Mice

  Illustration (artist unknown) to accompany poem of the same name
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  The Game

  Tabletop Ball Game patent application, in papers of Charles Hartwell Burleigh in his role as a patent attorney. Image reversed as in a negative
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  The Hang-Bird's Nest illustration

  Mother holding her baby, sitting in a rocking chair, and looking out past thick, Victorian curtains at the "hand-bird's nest"
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  The Marvellous Mowing-Match Illustration

  Death, the Devil, and the Drunkard mowing with scythes. Note the Devil is dark-skinned, but his facial hair looks more like a Spaniard than any African-American of the time.
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  The Tree of Temperance and the Tree of Intemperance

  Comparison of the fruits of temperance and intemperance by showing two trees