--- title: ¡¡Viva Chile!! Suscrición popular para comprar una Nueva Esmeralda (Popular Subscription to Buy a New Esmeralda) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/suscricion-popular-nueva-esmeralda-1879/ description: A numbered subscription ticket (no. 00021) headed '¡¡Viva Chile!!' and 'Mayo 21 de 1879' shows a three-masted steam warship above 'Suscrición popular… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![¡¡Viva Chile!! Suscrición popular para comprar una Nueva Esmeralda (Popular Subscription to Buy a New Esmeralda)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/suscricion-popular-nueva-esmeralda-1879.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/suscricion-popular-nueva-esmeralda-1879.png) # ¡¡Viva Chile!! Suscrición popular para comprar una Nueva Esmeralda (Popular Subscription to Buy a New Esmeralda) A numbered subscription ticket (no. 00021) headed '¡¡Viva Chile!!' and 'Mayo 21 de 1879' shows a three-masted steam warship above 'Suscrición popular para comprar una Nueva Esmeralda', 20 centavos, with a committee signature block and anchors and shells in the border. Transfer tell: the name of the ship lost on the printed date is attached to a small-sum appeal to the whole public. - **Date:** 1879 - **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914) - **Made by:** Subscription committee (president, treasurer, secretary; not otherwise identified), Chile; ticket reproduced in a book on the War of the Pacific - **Region:** [Latin America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=latin-america) - **Country:** [Chile](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=chile) - **Medium:** [Document](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=document) - **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed) - **Regime:** [Pinto Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=pinto-government) - **Leader:** [Anibal Pinto](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=anibal-pinto) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [War of the Pacific](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=war-of-the-pacific) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from a book reproduction on Scribd)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suscripcion-popular.png), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (printed in Chile in 1879, before 1931; Commons public-domain tag on file page) Suscripción popular ticket, Chile, 1879, via Wikimedia Commons ## Text on the object Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Serie Nº 00021 ¡¡VIVA CHILE!! Mayo 21 DE 1879 SUSCRICION POPULAR 20 para comprar 20 CENTAVOS UNA CENTAVOS NUEVA ESMERALDA La Comision [signature, illegible] [signature, illegible] Presidente [signature, illegible] Tesorero [signature, illegible] Secretario ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Series No. 00021 LONG LIVE CHILE!! 21 May 1879 POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION 20 centavos, to buy a NEW ESMERALDA, 20 centavos The Committee [signatures, illegible] President / Treasurer / Secretary ``` Spelling follows the print ('Suscricion', 'Comision'). The order of the three role labels beneath the signatures is read from the image; the signatures are not legible. 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