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Great solar eclipse. To be seen every day at West's observatory, No. 7 Pear St. Philadelphia. NB No postponement on account of weather
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Print shows an advertisement for West's Blacking Climax with five adults, a child, and a dog using smoked glass to observe West's Blacking logo eclipse the sun. The man on the left states, "What an awful eclipse! It forbodes [sic] the death of some great man, I shouldn't wonder if it was Warren the blacking maker, for I heard some time ago that he had got rather low & would soon be given up." The man next to him states, "No, nor Martin either -- this eclipse will just about do em up." The young boy at center, kneeling next to the dog and helping him to see the eclipse, states "Now Pont shut one eye & look thro' this smok't glass. Don't it out-shine the sun." To which the dog states, "Out-shine the sun! Strike me Hydrophobical if it don't outshine the Dog star." The woman at right center states, "Dear me! This is just what I expected! Here comes the comet at last with its fiery tail! Mercy on me! Shall we all be burnt up! Shall we see Day no more!" And the man second from right states, "Well I never seed sich blacking as that are. It gives the Sun no chance at all & puts me all in a twitter, like a barrel of saft soap in an earthquake." And the man on the far right states, "Well, this beats all Nater! I've seen the sun sink behind the West, but now the West's rising in front of the Sun!!"
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(DLC/PP-2001:068).
Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
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The Americana collection of Marian Sadtler Carson (1905-2004) spans the years 1656-1995 with the bulk of the material dating from 1700 to 1876. The collection includes more than 10,000 historical letters and manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and drawings, books and pamphlets, maps, and printed ephemera from the colonial era through the 1876 centennial of the United States. It is believed to be the most extensive existing private collection of early Americana. The collection includes such important and diverse historical treasures as unpublished papers of Revolutionary War figures and the Continental Congress; letters of several American presidents, including Thomas Jefferson; a manuscript account of the departure of the first Pony Express rider from St. Joseph, Mo.; and what may be the earliest photograph of a human face. Many of the rare books and pamphlets in the collection pertain to the early Congresses of the United States, augmenting the Library's unparalleled collection of political pamphlets and imprints. The Carson Collection adds to the Library's holdings the first presidential campaign biography, John Beckley's Address to the people of the United States with an Epitome and vindication of the Public Life and Character of Thomas Jefferson, published in Philadelphia in 1800. The book was written to counter numerous attacks against Jefferson's character, which appeared in newspapers and pamphlets during the bitter election campaign. The Rare Book and Special Collections Division shares custodial responsibility for the collection with the Library's Geography and Map Division, Music Division, Prints and Photographs Division, and the Manuscript Division.
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