¡¡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
- 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
- Country
- Chile
- Medium
- Document
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Pinto Government
- Leader
- Anibal Pinto
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- War of the Pacific
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from a book reproduction on Scribd), 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
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
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.
