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The Century : midsummer holiday number
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Image of an advertisement for The Century Christmas Number featuring women in Classical garb and small children flanking an open book as parts of an elaborate decorative border.
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Image of an advertisement for Century magazine August 1900 issue; three-quarter-length portraits of a man and a woman in period clothing hand on a wallpapered wall with a sword, knife, and gun between them; helmet floating amidst clouds and lightning in a storm at bottom center.
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The Century : May
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Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine; two women in flowing robes and winged sandals dance past a sundial holding a flower garland upraised.
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The Century August midsummer holiday number
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Image of a woman with long dark hair streaming around her in a flower field; she holds the skirt of her dress up with both hands to hold cut blossoms; the poster advertises the August 1896 issue of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
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The Century : May
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Image of an advertisement for the Century magazine May 1895 issue; two women in flowing robes and winged sandals dance past a sundial holding a flower garland upraised.
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The Century : midsummer holiday number. August
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The Artist posters collection at the Huntington Library contains over 180 printed works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household goods, and other products are also advertised. Notable illustrators represented in the collection include William L. Carqueville, Charles Dana Gibson, J. J. Gould, William Sergeant Kendall, J. C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, and Edward Penfield. Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles (such as Art Nouveau), fashion, graphic design, publishing, book and literary journal publication, product advertising, and the intersections between them, especially during the last decade of the 19th century.
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