The Beginning and the End of Life

The Beginning and the End of Life

Ephemera

The Beginning and the End of Life

ca. 1900
Image: 13.5 x 9.4 cm
Overall: 17.4 x 10.4 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, ex-collection Walter A. Johnson, 2010
Inscriptions recto (printed in ink): THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF LIFE / (Hold the picture 1 feet away for Life and 20 feet for Death) / Presented by / WILLIAM DEERING & CO., Chicago, Ill. / GRAIN & GRASS MACHINERY. (OVER)
verso (printed in black ink): [advertisement for grain and grass machinery]

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