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Title: Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [certificate]
Description: Diploma depicting six vignettes and graphic elements symbolizing agriculture and horticulture separated into distinct scenes by borders designed as trees and foliage. At the top, a winged, female allegorical figure, attired in a robe and laurel wreath, sits with her arms outstretched over a shield surmounted by an eagle. She holds a bugle in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right, and she reaches in the direction of two horses that flank the shield. Images of a railroad locomotive crossing a stone arch bridge (left) and a waterfront industrial complex (right) flank the winged figure. On the sides, scenes depict cattle and sheep grazing, men harvesting a field with a horse-drawn reaper, and a man feeding horses near a large bale of hay. At the bottom, tools and agricultural products surround the society's blind stamp, and include farm produce, scythes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows. 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., Not in Wainwright., Awarded to S.M. Mertzler for display of wines etc. at the exhibition of said society held at Lancaster in 1875, signed D.W. Seiler, secretary, and George Scott, president., Society's blind stamp on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 166, Gift of David Doret., Edward Herline and Howard B. Hamilton, the proprietors of Herline & Co., moved their lithographic operations from 630 Chestnut Street to 39 South Tenth Street in 1871.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.2003.37.1]

Title: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [blank] annual fair held at Wyoming [blank] 18[blank]
Description: Diploma containing two vignettes and and a dominant scene symbolizing agriculture separated by borders comprised of sheaves of wheat, a shovel, farm produce, and vinery. In the upper right, vignettes depict a farmer reaping his field with a horse-drawn reaper and an industrial view of a train passing a coal breaker factory across from a coal mine in which horse-drawn coal cars arrive and depart. The dominant scene shows a farm with livestock, including a pig, turkeys, chickens, and ducks milling the grounds near a woman milking a cow while farmhands corral cows out of a yard, transport a wagon of hay from a barn, and plow a field. View also shows horses before a pasture of grazing sheep and other homesteads, the Wyoming Monument (erected in 1833 in memory of victims of the Wyoming Massacre 1778), and treescaped hills in the distance. The Luzerne County Agricultural Society was founded in 1858 by persons interested in farming and gardening with the mission "to foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual fair was held in 1859 and stopped after circa 1879 and before 1891., Not in Wainwright., Dilpoma completed in manuscript: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [Thirteenth] Annual Fair held at Wyoming [Sept. 25, 26 & 27] 18[72] To [William H. Shoemaker Esq. of Wyoming] for [best bottle of grape wine]. [Steuben Jenkins], Prest. and [W. H. Jenkins], Secy., Glued onto a modern mat by previous owner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 287, Steuben Jenkins was a respected lawyer, farmer, historian, and antiquarian of Wyoming County.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture - Luzerne [P.2014.11]

Title: Diploma awarded by the Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. [blank] annual fair at Easton, [blank]. [Blank], Secy. [Blank] Prest
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); a group of cattle; the Easton fairgrounds in front of a municipal building; a pair of horses; a locomotive travelling across a bridge away from a complex of manufactories; and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence." The Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. formed in 1855 to create a committee to buy land in Easton suitable for fair grounds following the Northampton County Agricultural Society choosing neighboring Nazareth for its permanent fair grounds., Not in Wainwright., Completed in manuscript on September 26, 1856 to Leonard Frankenfield, Bethlehem Twp., Penna. for Best Horse Raker. Signed Geo. W. Yates, Secy. and Sam Yohe, Prest., Caption: From a photograph by Reuben Knecht, Easton, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 296, Pasted on foam core.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Agriculture [P.2019.24.3]

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