French dance card booklet with thin ivory covers. Covers have chamfered edges and front cover has ornate cut-out design of 3 leafy C scrolls and additional leafage within a solid border. End papers are covered in red silk. Within are 2 smooth white printed pages at both front and back and six off-white blank pages between. First glossy leaf printed with "Contredanses" on both sides and 12 numbered lines. Second leaf has a Victorian couple printed on each side in different poses. Underneath first couple is "a Paris, chez l'Editeur". Final white pages: first has "Walses", 2nd has "Galops", 3rd is another pose of a Victorian couple dancing and the last is "Walses". Paper loop inside back cover intended for holding a now-missing pencil. Penciled inscriptions on most pages, including names "P. Hetrick" and "Lizzie E. W."
Grandmother Smaling died very suddenly last evening at the home of Aunt Kitty Pankake at Salunga. The funeral will be held at Landisville on Saturday at 1 o'clock P.M.
Football team seated on steps, year 1899 on two footballs held by team members.
Provenance
Small green vinyl album that belong to Mrs. H. John Heimenz. Most of the photos are not identified. Many are sports and recreation related. Also contains a few newspaper clippings.
Small green vinyl album that belong to Mrs. H. John Heimenz. Most of the photos are not identified. Many are sports and recreation related. Also contains a few newspaper clippings.
Small album with black composition covers which are no longer attached. Album is in poor conditon. Contains 124 photographs of people, scenes and buildings - few are identified. All taken between 1897 and 1899. Possibly belonged to the family of Edward Reinhold of East Donegal Township. His son, Paul, is the only identified person in the album.