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The lottery: the allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a show on stage; various allegorical figures in the foreground. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth, 1724.

Tuberculosis patients lying on their beds in a crowded tuberculosis hospital; advertising a tombola in aid of tuberculosis sufferers in L'Hérault, France. Colour lithograph, ca. 1933.

A man is shown from behind reading a sandwich board attached to the back of the man in front of him, advertising a lottery. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.

Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.

Recherches historiques sur les loteries des Romains / par J.G.H. Greppo.

Serbischer Verein vom Roten Kreuze unter dem Protectorate seiner Majestät des Königs : Prämen-Schuldverschreibung auf Ueberbringer über zwanzig Francs Gold ... Belgrad, 15/28 Januar 1907.

Reflections upon what the world commonly call good-luck and ill-luck, With Regard to lotteries. And of the Good Use which may be made of them. Translated from the French, of the Ingenious Mons. Le Clerc.

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Recherches historiques sur les loteries des Romains / par J.G.H. Greppo.

Tuberculosis patients lying on their beds in a crowded tuberculosis hospital; advertising a tombola in aid of tuberculosis sufferers in L'Hérault, France. Colour lithograph, ca. 1933.

Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.

Serbischer Verein vom Roten Kreuze unter dem Protectorate seiner Majestät des Königs : Prämen-Schuldverschreibung auf Ueberbringer über zwanzig Francs Gold ... Belgrad, 15/28 Januar 1907.

Reflections upon what the world commonly call good-luck and ill-luck, With Regard to lotteries. And of the Good Use which may be made of them. Translated from the French, of the Ingenious Mons. Le Clerc.