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 005alco: 1874 Temperance Anti- Drinking Print. Three engraved images from the March 14, 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly. Title is "Woman's Crusade Against Intemperance." Each image shows members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union attempting to stop the sale of liquor. 11x16 in. $50  007alco: 1875 Boston Liquor Dealers Evade the Law. Hand colored, engraved image from the Jan. 28 issue of Harper's Weekly. Title is "Prohibition in Boston: Evasion of the Law by Liquor Dealers." 8x11 in. $30  008alco: 1949 Ad for Blatz Beer. Full page, color advertisement for Blatz, featuring TV star and satisfied beer drinker Fred MacMurray. 11x16 in. $20  009alco: 1880 Beer Drinking Saloon Scene. Engraved image from an 1880 issue of Harper's Weekly. Title is "A Beer Saloon in Bottle Alley. Shows a large group of people inside the saloon, all of whom seem to be extremely drunk and generally unhappy. 8x11 in. $30  010alco: 1874 Anti Liquor Drinking Print: Bottle Imp. This wood-engraved print is a cartoon from the April 11, 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly. The cartoon is titled "The Bottle Imp." It shows a drunken man sitting at a table with a bottle and glass in front of him. Around him are images of bottle-shaped demons destroying people's lives and property. 11x16 in. $40 |
 012alco: 1881 Beer: Hop Fields in New York State. Nicely hand colored engraving from Harper's Weekly, titled "In the Hop Fields of Central New York." Contains seven images of workers harvesting hops, and processing them for shipment. 11x16 in. $50  013alco: circa 1860 Wine: Une Jeune Femme Malade. This beautiful hand colored engraving depicts a sick young lady being given wine for her malady. This engraving was done by Avril Pere which was copied from a painting by J. Steen. Size 22.5x17 in. $250  201alco: 1874 Anti Drinking Print by Nast: Shows Police as Pigs. Hand colored, engraved cartoon by Thomas Nast, from the June 13, 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly. Title is "Jewels Among Swine." A caption beneath the image explains that the Cincinnati police were protecting bar owners while persecuting the Christian women who protested outside drinking establishments. 11x16 in. $60  204alco: This interesting item consists of two pages from the Jan. 7, 1860 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The pages contain six hand colored, wood-engraved images and part of an article, all pertaining to wine making in the Champagne region of France. The pages are in very good condition. There are a few small brown spots of age toning, but they are not visually distracting. each page is 11x16 in. $100  207alco: Very nice hand colored engraving from the September 29, 1888 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Three images titled, The Hop Industry in Central New York. Top right image captioned, Picking Hops. Middle image captioned, The Last Load: Pickers Returning. Lower image on left captioned, Bagging Hops. 11x16 in. $60
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 208alco: New York, A Vast American Industry - The Great Hop Yards in the Valley of the Susquehanna. Five hand colored wood engravings from the October 5, 1878 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Top image is captioned, View of the Valley of the Susquehanna - The Great Hop District, From the Railroad. Center image captioned, Scene in a Hop Yard Near Cooperstown - Hop Pickers at Work. Bottom three images captioned from left to right, Exterior of Drying House; Drying Room; and Heating Room. 16x22 in. $150  209alco: 1884 Among The Hop-Pickers - Drawn by Jessie McDermott. Hand colored wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly on October 25, 1884. Several scenes on one page depicting the process of hop-picking. 11x16in. $50  210alco: 1894 Hand colored wood engravings featured in Harper's Weekly advertising "Every test proves uniformly excellent reputation of this popular French Tonic" for Vin Mariani. "Recommended everywhere by the Medical Profession...For all fatigues of Body and Brain." 15-1/2 x 11 in. $40  211alco: 1905 Colored lithograph by E. Charles advertisement featured in The Theatre Magazine Advertiser for "White Seal" - Moet & Chandon Champagne showing a man holding two bottles as he stands on top of the world stacked with cases of White Seal champagne. 13-1/2 x 10 in. $20 |
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