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."
Ink print on paper. Drawing of Penn Square looking toward N. Queen St. The Soldiers' Monument in the left foreground is surrounded by women in long dresses, bonnets; some with umbrellas/parasols; men wearing hats.Wagons and horses stand in the lower right. The dome of the courthouse is in the background on the right.
Year Range From
1874
Year Range To
1890
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 5
Storage Container
Box 0542
Object Name
Print
Height (cm)
27.94
Height (ft)
0.9166666667
Height (in)
11
Width (cm)
30.48
Width (ft)
1
Width (in)
12
Dimension Details
The print is within a margin and measures 8.875 " wide x 7.5 " high.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-08-21
Condition Notes
Brown on edges. 1/2-inch tear on lower right edge. On reverse, brown on top 2 to 3 inches; also brown on lower left. Some spotting on lower right.
Image of Trinity Lutheran Church. 1800's. New brick facade, wrought iron grate/fence surrounding building's sides. Steeple now integrated with building's face.
Profile of an older African-American man in jacket, vest and tie, by W. H. Tevis for Capt Barr, August 19, 1894. Color profile is in a cut-out circle pasted onto a gold-rimmed stiff card (size of a cabinet card). On reverse, written in pen: "by W.H. Tevis / Aug. 19/1897 / for Capt. Barr".
Portrait of "Aunt Rachel" an African-American woman
Description
Color profile portrait of a Black (African-American) woman wearing a red head scarf tied beneath her neck. Wearing pink top with white collar. "AUNT RACHEL" written in pencil beneath profile.. In lower right, on profile: "WHT-1897".
On reverse,written in pencil: "Capt Barr./from W.H. Tevis/Aug 24-1897"
Copy of a photo-mechanical image of Major General John Fulton Reynolds in his Civil War Uniform. Right hand touching belt at center, his left hand holds the hilt of a weapon and the visor of his cap. Artist Max Rosenthal has signed both the original as well as the print. His signature on the print is dated 1897. This print has a "No. 3" printed in the center at the bottom. A small drawing of the Gettysburg statue of Reynolds on his horse is below the print on the lower left.
"Copywrited and Published by H.T Coates and Company, Jan. 1898."
Dimensions above are for the print that is pasted/glued onto a heavy brittle cardboard, 17.125" x 12.625".
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-09-11
Condition Notes
Two breaks on left edge and top right corner broken from brittle backer cardboard. Heavy foxing on lower portion of poster visible in clear margin. More foxing, less visible, on print.
