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Title	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Reprint sheet 17.
Contributors	John P. Morton & Co. (publisher)
Description	This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caterpillars on leaves, the fossil, the conch shell, the deer by the body of water, the man leaning toward the dog, and the horses running past trees, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: boy drawing stick figure on slate; caterpillars on leaves; boy holding slate bearing addition equation "7 [+] 5 [=] 12"; angel, possibly St. Peter (bearded man wear robes and wings, holding a sickle and posed next to an hourglass); girl holding hand of crying boy; boy reading intently; man bent, holding hat against wind, which is blowing his cape; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; boy rowing raft with pole; stork eating fish; frog amid swamp grass; head of monkey; fossil?; conch shell; deer by body of water; man wearing top hat and leaning on cane reaches one hand out to a dog as he looks toward a large house at the end of the path; wooden still; horses running past trees, some looking back; surgical instrument with pipe, hose, and two bulbs, manufactured by Codman & Shurtleff, Boston; man in shackles seated in prison cell next to cot, with two women and a man watching from doorway; deer drinking from stream; head of monkey or chimpanzee; eight snowflake designs; anatomical drawing of valves; shell; long-legged bird (heron?); flowers atop hat; two small dark birds on ground, with bird with large wingspan approaching from sky and geese flying at further distance; head of ape; stem with needles, possibly a cactus branch; large and small monkeys on branches; diagram of bird, with body parts numbered; two monkeys in forest.
Subject	Writing materials Children Insects Angels Reading Animals Sleds & sleighs Rafts Stills (Distilleries) Medical equipment & supplies Prisoners Men Women Snowflakes Body parts Shells (Anatomy)
Date Original	18--?
Object Type	Wood engravings
Related Images	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheets 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 6-1, 6-2, 8-1, 21-1, 21-2, 23-2, 24-1, 24-2, 28-1, 29-2, 30-1, 30-2, 32-1, and 33-1.
Source	17 9/16 x 22 9/16 in. page in the John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection, University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/morton#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/morton/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library
Format	image/jp2
Ordering Information	For information about the use of these images, contact Gail Gilbert (gail.gilbert@louisville.edu), Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library (http://louisville.edu/library/art/ ), University of Louisville.
Image Number	ULAL Morton Woodblocks Reprint 17
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