cloth poster

SIGNS & POSTERS
1859 - 1889
textile
35.00 x 25.50 x 0

Cloth poster, printed in blue and orange; advertisement for soluble Pacific guano: at center is blue bird, closely resembling a Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii), perched on sack labeled "SOLUBLE/ PACIFIC/ GUANO", grasps fish in beak; poster reads: "SOLUBLE PACIFIC/ GUANO/ -FOR-/ CORN/ POTATOES/ TOBACCO/ GRASS/ ROOT/ AND/ GRAIN CROPS/ Of all kinds/ GARDEN / VEGETABLES/ &c., &c,/ ITS USE SECURES TO THE FARMER A/ LARGE AND REMUNERATIVE CROP,/ And has been found to pay better than any other investment./ -FOR PARTICULARS CALL ON-"; manufactured by Pacific Guano Company of Falmouth (Wood's Hole), MA; bottom margin is blank, for individual guano distributors names and addresses.


1994.5

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