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Gifts
to the Prairie features the extraordinary lithographs of the Prestele
family,
hand colored to reflect the exact appearance and beauty of the most
popular fruits
and flowers of the day. Created
for Bloomington’s F.
K. Phoenix Nursery, the
largest in
the West in 1867, the prints represent the unique art from used by
pioneer
nurserymen, such as Phoenix,
to sell their plant stock. The exhibit explores the work of these men,
the unique lithographs they used to sell their stock, and how they
changed the Illinois
prairie landscape.
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