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Image Title: Gunpowder For Sale Here, New York, circa 1850s

Description: Advertising Poster. Gunpowder For Sale Here, N.Y. Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." showing vignette illustrations in medallions representing types, such as "Daniel Boone Rifle Gunpowder", "Duck Shooting Gunpowder", "Sea Shooting Gunpowder", "Prairie Shooting Gunpowder", and "Missouri Rifle Gunpowder", and grades of gunpowder, such as "FG", "11FG", and "FFFG", and depicting men with rifles, eagles and game birds, and bison. Two labels for "The Laflin Powder Company" have been pasted onto the broadside covering existing text.

Creator: Stuart, Oliver J., Engraver

Date: 1850s

Original Media: Print

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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