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Title	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Reprint sheet 20.
Contributors	John P. Morton & Co. (publisher)
Description	This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the word "AND" and the circular image of a house on an urban street, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left: main building and quadrangle of a campus, with insets of a long, low building; title page for "The American Spelling-Book" with image of three children reading; masthead for "Louisville School Messenger"; border design of leaves, flowers, and black-and-white pattern; 4-story storefront for Morton & Griswold, with "Bindery. Printing office. Paper warehouse." printed between stories; pattern of arches and flowers; design of the word "AND"; four children reading beneath "Book of Knowledge" sign; people on grounds of large home or institutional building; steamboat; large building with cupola, and horse-drawn carriage in front; oval-shaped seal for Louisville Water Company, with motto "Perennial"; circular image of house on urban street; man beside and man inside horse-drawn carriage; one-story building (monument?) with columns; desk and chair; building with cupola; storefronts, including one large five-story building with two-story columns at front entrance, on cobblestone street with horse-drawn carriages; slaves carrying baskets of cotton on their heads (women) or shoulders (man) to a woman seated under a tree in foreground; man in top hat with cane and woman confer with shopkeeper behind counter of what appears to be a pharmacy; skyline of a river city, with steamboats, including one named "Robt. E. Lee" on river.
Subject	Buildings Textbooks Children Reading Newspapers Graphic design Stores & shops Steamboats Carriages & coaches Seals (Insignia) Louisville Water Company (Louisville, Ky.) Dwellings Houses Slavery African Americans Drugstores Cities & towns
Location Depicted	Louisville (Ky.) Jefferson County (Ky.)
Date Original	18--?
Object Type	Wood engravings
Related Images	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheets 1-3, 2-1, 3-2, 5-1, 5-2, 18-1, 19-1, 20-2, 23-1, 23-2, 25-1, 28-2, 29-1, 30-2, 31-2, 31-3, and 32-1.
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 20
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