Invitations, Tickets & Programs
New Year's,Balls and Dances,Invitations
Pittston PA: N.p, 1834. Lithographed invitation, printed on coated card (1.75" by 3") promoting a New Year's Ball given "At the Hall of Capt. Squire Marcy" on January 1st, 1835. Lists the names of managers of the event below, verso blank.
Price: $150.00
Library Cards,Mercantile Library Association,Merchants,Mercantile History,private Libraries
New York, New York: Mercantile Library Association, 1836. Printed library membership card finished in ink, admitting "Capt. Lathrop" to the Mercantile Library Association "for the term of Four Weeks" beginning 15th of March, 1836. Signed at foot by "Chas Rolfe Prest [i.e. President of the Association]". Printed on coated card.....
Price: $275.00
American Folk Music,American Popular Culture and Identity,Hutchinson Family Singers,Tickets and Programs
New York, New York: Tribune Print, 1843. A concert program and admit one ticket from an 1843 farewell concert given in New York by the famed Hutchinson Family Singers. The event was held on May 25, 1843 at the Society Library Room, 348 Broadway. The group was tremendously popular at.....
Price: $325.00
Fire Fighters and First Responders,New England History
United States: 1860s-1880s. A small gathering of ephemera related to firemen and fire stations in the 1860s through the 1880s, mainly located in New England towns such as Nashua, New Hampshire, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Together, the materials provide a window into the social lives of these first responders, including charity.....
Price: $1,200.00
Minstrelsy and Black Face in America
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Merrihew & Son, c.1876. Printed program outlining a full night of musical entertainments starring "The Gigantic Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels", a traveling minstrel group popular with the public in the 1870s. As might be expected, one of the biggest numbers includes black face/minstrelsy (one of the numbers is.....
Price: $100.00
Royal Hand-Bell Ringers,Touring Acts
[Kingston, New York]: Liscomb's Opera House, 1895. Printed ticket granting admission to a performance of the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers of London at Liscomb's Opera House in Kingston, New York, in October 1895. The group, directed by Duncan S. Miller, toured often and performed frequently for temperance societies. Using hand bells.....
Price: $150.00
Incubator Babies,Sideshow Attractions
San Francisco, California: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Original printed souvenir day pass ticket to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, held on San Francisco's Treasure Island between February 1939 and September 1940. This example is notable for its promotion of the "Incubator Babies" sideshow. The attraction was exactly what.....
Price: $75.00
Sunday School, Sabbath, Christian Education, Christianity
Chelsea, [Massachusetts]: 1863. Printed program including hymns and order of events for the 1863 anniversary of the Chestnut Street Congregational Sabbath School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Features an address by the Rev. J.C. Fletcher, and ends with prayer and benediction. Bifolium (7.75" by 5"), pp. [4], illustrated with an image of.....
Price: $125.00
French-American,Can-Can,Dances and Parties,Tickets and Invitations,Gilded Age
New York, New York: Cercle Francais de l'Harmonie, 1884. Printed invitation/"admit one" ticket for the evening entertainments of the Cercle Francais de l'Harmonie in January 1884 in New York. The front is printed in color and depicts two winged putti flanked by French and American flags. The back features a......
Price: $225.00
Children's and Family Events, Dolls, Chocolate
Boston MA: 1881. A most charming invitation for children to attend a "Chocolate Party and Dolls Fair", wherein the "Little Folks" may invite the "Big Folks" to drink chocolate and see a bazaar of over one hundred dolls, as well as a reading from the talented Miss Adeline E. Hall.....
Price: $85.00
prayer, hymn, church, children, children mass, program
Philadelphia, PA: Rectory St. Timothy's Church, Feb 1867. Single fold Hymnal Program from St. Timothy's Parish located in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Roxborough. This program was for "Children's Church", and featured several prayers, including one for both entering and exiting the church, as well as several hymns, such as: "Glory.....
Price: $45.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Yale University,Dances and Proms
New Haven, Connecticut: George H. Ford, 1891. A beautifully produced keepsake program for "Promenade Week" at Yale, a multi-day celebratory event held in January, 1891. The program includes a list of events organized by day, ranging from receptions and "germans" (a kind of prom or dance) to concerts by the.....
Price: $225.00
program, ball, the pilgrimage
Natchez, Mississippi: Natchez Garden Club, 1936. Single-fold program for the Confederate Ball, a pageant put on by the Natchez Garden Club in Natchez, Mississippi. Since 1932 the garden club has done a fall and spring pilgrimage, where owners of historic homes in the area open their homes for guided tours.....
Price: $95.00
program, New Hampshire National Guard, NHNG, bald eagle, american flag
Concord, NH: E.A. Wright, Phila (engraver), February 24, 1892. A dance card for Company E, 3d Regiment of the New Hampshire National Guard's (NHNG) exhibition and prize drill which took place at the White's Opera House in Concord, NH in 1892. The Order of Dance lists the fourteen (14) dances.....
Price: $165.00
Dance Card
New York, New York: Homer Lee Bank Note Co., 1892. Dance card for the First Annual Ball of the Homer Lee Bank Note Co. Mutual Benefit Association, held in New York's Lyric Hall in February 1892. Includes a program of dances with spaces to write one's dance partners, as well.....
Price: $65.00
Dance Card
[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: 1887. Printed dance card for the annual Tasker Social held in 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Musical Fund Hall. Includes list of dances with spaces to write one's dance partners, as well as a list of conductors, officers, and the organizing committee. Bifolium (5" by 3.25"), printed.....
Price: $110.00
Benevolence, Letter Carriers, Dance Card
Springfield [MA]: J. E. Shipman, 1894. 8 pp dance card die-cut in the shape of a mail box. Litho on orange stock covers. Ribbon binding. The order of dance includes sixteen dances. Seven dances were spoken for (written in pencil). Music by the Springfield Orchestral Club. Hosted by Branch No.....
Price: $85.00
Dance Card, Military, Social History
Bloomington, IND: The Hall-Cosler Co. Dance card in the shape and image of a military cadet, from the University of Vermont's Military Ball, held under the auspices of Scabbard and Blade Society at the University Gym, on November 10, 1924. Sixteen dances in the order of dance. Names penciled in.....
Price: $65.00
Medicine and Pharmaceuticals
Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association, 1908. Program for the second annual meeting of the West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association, due-cut in the shape of a medicine bottle. Includes: a list of officers and committee members; a detailed schedule of events; and a list of speakers. Die-cut program.....
Price: $250.00
invite, transportation, steamer, Eastman College, Eastman National Business College, Hudson River
Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman College, May 18, 1878. An invite for the Eastman College's First Grand Excursion, otherwise known as "Poughkeepsie to the Ocean" (via news articles at the time). The students were to travel on Saturday, May 18, 1878, on the steamer Mary Powell, all the way to New York.....
Price: $90.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Concert Ephemera, Comic Entertainment, Music, Performance
United States: c.1846. Engraved concert ticket for a performance by the Misses Macomber, "The Twin Sisters", and "Covert & Dodge". Emma and Clara Macomber were identical twins who sang on tour with Ossian Euclid Dodge and Bernard Covert in the 1840s. Dodge was a popular comic performer who rubbed elbows.....
Price: $225.00
Engraved Ticket,Typography,New York University
New York, New York: University of the City of New York, 1859. Engraved ticket for entry into the 1859 Junior Exhibition of the University of the City of New York (later renamed New York University). The school was founded in 1831, and had already opened its first graduate school, the.....
Price: $65.00
Women's history, Education,Commencement
Columbus, Ohio: June 12,1857. Esther Institute was the Columbus, Ohio's first girls' boarding school. It was founder by Lewis Hely in September 1853. The faculty at the school included Agnes Beecher Allen (1831-1919), niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. The item is a program for the June 1857 Commencement Exercises. It.....
Price: $95.00
Benefit Concerts, Stereotypes, Old South, Entertainment, Cultural History
Revere, [Massachusetts]: 1908. Printed program for a benefit concert raising funds for victims of the April 12th, 1908 fire that devastated Chelsea, Massachusetts and left over half of its population homeless. The theme of the concert is "An Evening on the Old Plantation" and features "Eighty Colored People of Revere".....
Price: $125.00