Biographical materials include a copy of a Prussian arrest warrant for Prang when he was involved in revolutionary activities in Europe, a passport, a receipt for household purchases, patent certificates for improvements in printing silks and other fabrics and for improvements in envelopes for rolled prints, certificates of membership in various historical and educational organizations, acknowledgment certificates for gifts to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and to the Smithsonian Institution, and a photocopy of a typescript of an 1873 letter from John Greenleaf Whittier calling Prang's attention to an attempted imitation of his chromolithograph of Eastman Johnson's illustration of Whittier's poem The Barefoot Boy .
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Description Container Select Photocopy of 1848 Prussian Arrest Warrant for Louis Prang, undated Select: Photocopy of 1848 Prussian Arrest Warrant for Louis Prang, undated Receipt for Household Purchases, 1852 Select: Receipt for Household Purchases, 1852 Patent Certificates, 1871-1880 Select: Patent Certificates, 1871-1880 Membership Certificates, 1884-1906 Select: Membership Certificates, 1884-1906 Gift Acknowledgment Certificates, 1887-1889 Select: Gift Acknowledgment Certificates, 1887-1889 Photocopy of Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, 1873 Select: Photocopy of Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, 1873 Oversized Membership Certificate and Passport, 1884, 1903 Select: Oversized Membership Certificate and Passport, 1884, 1903 Oversized Membership Certificate, 1893 Select: Oversized Membership Certificate, 1893
Writings are primarily typescripts of lectures by Prang, a typescript by the donor, E. Wrightson Christopher, and a page concerning a card design competition by Clarence Cook.
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Description Container Select Typescript of Lecture at the Boston Women's Club by Louis Prang, 1897 Select: Typescript of Lecture at the Boston Women's Club by Louis Prang, 1897 Typescript of Lecture at the Grolier Club by Louis Prang, 1897 Select: Typescript of Lecture at the Grolier Club by Louis Prang, 1897 Typescript of Lecture "Women's Suffrage and Imperialism," Presented at the Roxbury Women's Suffrage Club by Louis Prang, 1898 Select: Typescript of Lecture "Women's Suffrage and Imperialism," Presented at the Roxbury Women's Suffrage Club by Louis Prang, 1898 Typescript "Lithographic Process Used by Louis Prang" by E. Wrightson Christopher, circa 1853-1927 Select: Typescript "Lithographic Process Used by Louis Prang" by E. Wrightson Christopher, circa 1853-1927 Hand-written Page Concerning a Card Design Competition by Clarence Cook, 1880 Select: Hand-written Page Concerning a Card Design Competition by Clarence Cook, 1880
Art work consists of a pencil drawing by Prang of a female head wearing a French Revolution liberty cap.
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Printed material consists of catalogs for Easter and Valentine cards, a book of color separation proofs for an image of a ceramic vase, and a sales book containing loose pages displaying samples of chromolithographed greeting cards and reproductions of art work offered by L. Prang and Company.
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Description Container Select Catalog of Easter Cards; Catalog of Valentine Cards, 1885-1889 Select: Catalog of Easter Cards; Catalog of Valentine Cards, 1885-1889 Oversized Book of Color Separation Proofs for Image of a Ceramic Vase, circa 1853-1927 Select: Oversized Book of Color Separation Proofs for Image of a Ceramic Vase, circa 1853-1927 Oversized Sales Book of Samples, Part 1 of 2, 1873-1888 Select: Oversized Sales Book of Samples, Part 1 of 2, 1873-1888 Oversized Sales Book of Samples, Part 2 of 2, 1873-1888 Select: Oversized Sales Book of Samples, Part 2 of 2, 1873-1888
Photographs are of Prang, family members, his residence, events, and colleagues. the Prang Mutual Aid Society Picnic, the L. Prang and Company building, Prang with his colleagues including son-in-law Karl F. Heinzen, and a portrait painting of Prang.
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Description Container Select Photographs of Louis Prang and Family Members, circa 1853-1927 Select: Photographs of Louis Prang and Family Members, circa 1853-1927 Photographs of Prang's Residence, 1874-1932 Select: Photographs of Prang's Residence, 1874-1932 Photographs of the Prang Mutual Aid Society Picnic, 1886-1896 Select: Photographs of the Prang Mutual Aid Society Picnic, 1886-1896 Photographs of the L. Prang and Company Building, circa 1853-1927 Select: Photographs of the L. Prang and Company Building, circa 1853-1927 Photograph of Portrait Painting of Louis Prang, circa 1853-1927 Select: Photograph of Portrait Painting of Louis Prang, circa 1853-1927 Oversized Photographs of Louis Prang and Family Members Outside Their Residence, circa 1853-1927 Select: Oversized Photographs of Louis Prang and Family Members Outside Their Residence, circa 1853-1927 Oversized Photograph of Louis Prang and Colleagues, 1897 Select: Oversized Photograph of Louis Prang and Colleagues, 1897