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Robert Patterson

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Robert Patterson

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Auction Date:2014 Oct 24 @ 20:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Location:4000 Ponce DeLeon Blvd. Suite #470, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
A certificate of membership in the Hibernian Society for relief of Irish immigrants. December 14, 1836. Approx. 18 x 23.75 in. Signed by John Knox, Secretary, and Joseph Tagert, President. Featuring a wonderful lithograph of women, with ship in background and rowboat shuttling men ashore, cornucopia with fruits of harvest in one corner of surround, spinning wheel, caducea in other corner, American eagle at top. The women possibly represent the various nations - Liberty, Hibernia, Britannia, etc. Through the 1830s, the island, always plagued by poverty, was ravaged by epidemics such as cholera, which started the wave of immigration to America long before the famines of 1845-1852. This is likely the reason the doctors were involved and the caducea is prominent on this certificate.