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Arbor Day 1872-1932 [with postal marks] (3.31071)
Date: 1932Type: Artifact
Description:Carmine rose-colored stamp commemorating Arbor Day. Framed by two arching trees, a girl holds a sapling tree upright while a boy fills in the planting hole with a shovelful of dirt.
United States Postage across top of stamp, Two Cents across bottom.
Arbor Day at top of image, 1872-1932 at bottom of image.
Arbor Day stamp issued on April 22, 1932, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of J. Sterling Morton and the sixtieth anniversary of Arbor Day, which he founded. Arbor day was first observed in Nebraska on April 22, 1872. 100,869,300 stamps were issued in 1932.
Extent: 1 postage stamp
Arbor Day 1872-1932 (3.31070)
Date: 1932Type: Artifact
Description:Carmine rose-colored stamp commemorating Arbor Day. Framed by two arching trees, a girl holds a sapling tree upright while a boy fills in the planting hole with a shovelful of dirt.
United States Postage across top of stamp, Two Cents across bottom.
Arbor Day at top of image, 1872-1932 at bottom of image.
Arbor Day stamp issued on April 22, 1932, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of J. Sterling Morton and the sixtieth anniversary of Arbor Day, which he founded. Arbor day was first observed in Nebraska on April 22, 1872. 100,869,300 stamps were issued in 1932.
Extent: 1 postage stamp
Notes on a sea grape leaf [realia]. (3.23753)
Date: 1946Creator: Fairchild, David, 1869-1954.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 leaf with text leaf 18 x 25 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23742)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23741)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23740)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23739)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23738)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23737)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23736)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23735)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Chinese folk papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23734)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 9 papercuts : colored ca. 15 x 10 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23733)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23732)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23731)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23730)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23729)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23728)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23727)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23726)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23725)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Selected Chinese papercuts [realia] : flowers and birds. (3.23724)
Type: Artifact
Extent: 10 papercuts : colored ca. 12 x 9 cm.
Slate sign for the Sterling Morton Library Reading Garden [realia]. (3.23721)
Date: 1968Creator: Catich, Edward M.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 slate sign : carving, color 57 x 107 x 1 cm. + 1 rubbing (b&w 57 x 109 cm.).
Mosquito [woodblock] (3.23717)
Date: 19th centuryCreator: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Type: Artifact
Description:Top views of mosquito, enlarged on top, and life size, bottom.
Extent: 1 wood block
Woman feeding chickens [woodblock] (3.23716)
Date: 19th centuryCreator: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Type: Artifact
Description:A woman stands in a fenced yard with a basket feeding five chickens. In the background stands a tree and a building with a figure in the doorway.
Extent: 1 wood block
Boy chasing bird in landscape [woodblock] (3.23715)
Date: 1800sCreator: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Type: Artifact
Description: Image of boy with hat in hand chasing a bird close to the ground. Trees and shrubs in background.
Extent: 1 wood block
Brachiopods [realia] / R.H. Pease Sc. (3.23714)
Creator: Hall, James, 1811-1898.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 wood block 10 x 14 x 3 cm.
Arbutus xalapensis [realia]. (3.23712)
Date: 1946Creator: Hamill, Clarice.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 printing plate 10 x 7 x 3 cm.
Hibiscus sabdariffa [realia] / Clarice Hamill. (3.23711)
Date: 1946Creator: Hamill, Clarice.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 printing plate 12 x 7 x 3 cm.
Bee [realia]. (3.23706)
Creator: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 wood block 2 x 3 x 3 cm.
Butterfly, dragonfly, and rose [realia]. (3.23702)
Creator: Dutertre, V. (Victor), 1850-
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 wood block 7 x 9 x 3 cm.
Fisherman casting [wood block] (3.23698)
Date: 1797 – 1804Creator: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Type: Artifact
Description:Image of fisherman casting into river with bridge in background.
Wood-engraving block made from end-grained Turkish boxwood
Extent: 1 wood block
Young man with cane and dog [realia]. (3.23697)
Date: 1790 – 1797Creator: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 wood block 3 x 6 x 3 cm., in a box 10 x 11 x 5 + 2 prints (wood engraving, b&w image 3 x 6 cm., on sheet 9 x 11 cm.)
Fantasy in a wood-block [realia] / Thomas Bewick. (3.23696)
Date: 1827Creator: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Type: Artifact
Extent: 1 wood block 8 x 4 x 3 cm., in a box 16 x 6 x 3 + 8 prints (wood engraving, b&w image 4 x 8 cm., on sheet 12 x 14 cm.)
Two covers for portfolio of 12 paintings (3.17810)
Date: 1953Creator: Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770.
Type: Artifact