Details
Contributor Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824, printer.
Title East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 30 x 37 cm.(11.5 x 14.5 in.)
Description Fair certificate containing an ornate border with vignettes, female allegorical figures, and pictorial elements related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show the Pennsylvania coat of arms (surrounded by flags) and montages of scenes of life on a farm. Farm scenes include a farmhouse; barns; a woman milking a cow; a farmhand settling a horse; piglets suckling on their mother; sheep being corralled; a field being cleared; and farmhands loading a wagon full of hay. Allegorical figures hold a sickle, cornucopia of flowers, a basket of fruit, and the head of a ram that lays near other farm animals. Border also includes cherubs, garlands of vines and flowers, fruit bushes, and displays of farm produce. Two bales of wheat clustered with doves, a bee hive, and gardening tools form another pictorial element. The East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society was established in 1860 in Norristown following a split from the Montgomery County Agricultural Society. The society held its first fair in 1861.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to Charles P. Peters in 1867 for King of peaches being the best variety on exhibition. Signed Joshua Ashbury, President and A.S. Hallman for Secretary.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 62
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - East Pennsylvania
Subject East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society.
Farmers' groups -- Pennsylvania.
Agricultural exhibits -- Pennsylvania -- Lebanon County.
Agricultural machinery & implements.
Farming.
Farm produce.
Livestock.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Coat of arms -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Certificates - East Pennsylvania