Content/DescriptionCartoon style satire of the Mercantile Library Association fund raising scheme showing cornucopia of wealth above crowd of people buying Gift Concert tickets (lottery). Comments by various people included in image.
Title
[A fortune for U and i].
Published
not before 1854
Full Collection Name
Selected prints from the James De Fremery diaries and scrapbook
Other Identifiers
BANC MSS 85/43 c (folder 122aA)
Type
Image
Extent
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 39.5 x 55.5 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
2 Mercantile Library Association, Gift Concert tickets attached to back.
Printed title (UC, in image). Printed (LC): E pluribus Unum eureka go brah! or in other words, "the greatest good to the smallest number." By virtue (?) of a special act of the legislature of the State of California, passed by the assembled wisdom (?) at its 20th session, entitled an act to amend an act to maintain an act to enforce the act of the Trustees to amend the acts of the Mercantile Library Ass. and preserve the act, of said association from the acts of its creditors. Dedication, to a public institution whose financial and scientific attainments, well known virtue and economy need encouragement and entitle it to a just appreciation, this print is respectfully dedicated by-the author.
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