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Title: [Chicken on a nest of hatching clown heads]
Creator: Boston Job Print, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a frightened chicken leaping off a nest full of eggs including three that have hatched with the heads of bald clowns.
Probable date and title supplied by cataloger; the Boston Job Print firm first appeared in the Boston City Directory around 1874. "Boston Job Print"--text, bottom left.
Type: image
Extent: 1 woodcut : color printed ; overall 67.31 x 100.65 cm (26 1/2 x 39 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000991
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2640
Language: English
Subject: Birds--Pictorial works
Chickens--Pictorial works
Clowns--Pictorial works
Theatrical productions
Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Music and Theater
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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