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Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society. [life membership certificate] [graphic].
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https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64275
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Title
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society. [life membership certificate] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 31 x 42 cm.(12.25 x 16.5 in.)
Description
Membership certificate containing a border of vignettes and scenes related to agriculture, horticulture, and industrial arts. Floral pictorial elements, a beehive, and watering can surround the scenes and vignettes. Shows farmers loading hay on a wagon; the coat of arms of Pennsylvania; a Victorian-style farm house; cows and horses at pasture; and figures representing agriculture, a blacksmith, and a sailor. The female agricultural figure sits and holds a sickle and a bale of wheat near an arrangement of farm produce. The artisan, holds a hammer, and stands over an anvil. The sailor, holds a spy glass, and sits next to a crate, barrels, and an anchor. Land and marinescapes are visible behind the figures. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Issued to C. F. Peters, ca. 1863. Signed A. B[rower] Longaker, Secretary and Thomas B. Knox, President.
Seal of the society blindstamped on recto.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 169
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Pennsylvania State Life Membership
Inscribed on verso: Estate of Anna M. Peters Sept. 8, 1938.
Knox served as president of the PSAS 1862-1864.
Subject
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Agriculture.
Artisans.
Farming.
Farm produce.
Livestock.
Sailors.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Certificates - Pennsylvania State Life Membership
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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