Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
THE BIRTHPLACE OF GRANOLA (NEW YORK.) Our Home on the Hillside, Dansville, Liv. Co., N.Y.: The Largest Hygienic Water Cure in the World. Chromolithograph, 24 x 36 inches, dampstaining mainly visible in margins, unevenly toned, vertical folds near both side margins. Buffalo: Sage, Sons & Co., circa 1864-70

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This sanitarium in western New York, created by James Caleb Jackson in 1858, pioneered what one recent history called "a system of holistic health--perhaps the first in the nation" (Iacobbo, Vegetarian America, 94). Granola was invented here circa 1863.