Pittsburgh Valley, Manor Township, Student Art Poster
Description
Poster displaying artwork of five eight-grade students who attended the Pittsburg Valley one-room school in Manor Township in 1933. Black and orange colored construction paper airplanes "Spirit of St. Louis" are by Ralph Richter and James Frey. There are three other square paper designs of black, orange, green and blue.
On the back, artwork has been removed, but the following Grade 8 students' names are written: Lottie Ressler, Cleo Sourbeer and Ralph Richter.
Provenance
Note clipped to poster display: "Randy, This is one of the 9 or 10 art work done in one rm school manor twp (Little Pittsburgh 1933) Are you interested? I must find good home for them as I promised the teacher I would. Clyde."
Julius Augustus Beck was born in Lititz, Lancaster County, and was educated at the Lititz Academy. He studied sculpture with Hiram Powers in Florence, Italy, and with Thomas Crawford in Rome. He was also a student in the English Life Academy at Rome. In 1857, Beck sculpted the lion's head for the Lititz Springs Park. The Pennsylvania Historical Society owns more than fifty portraits of prominent Pennsylvanians painted by J. Augustus Beck.
Print, New Theatre Performance of "Speed the Plough"
Description
The New Theatre is on South Queen Street in Lancaster. The poster cites the 7th performance of Mr. Henkins' Benefit of the comedy, Speed the Plough; and the farce, The Intrigue, of, Married Yesterday. Lists of actors (surnames, some given name initials) and roles they play also appear. Door open a 7:30 and "curtain rises at 8 o'clock precisely."
A finger points to : 'Officers are engaged who will preserve the strictest order;" and "No money received at the door."
Also, "NO LADY ADMITTED UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY A GENTLEMAN."
"Tickets to be obtained at Mr. Osterloh's Book Store..."
Former mat torn from larger piece of cardboard and lower corner of poster is missing including some print. A piece on the upper right edge is also missing.
Object ID
2003.243
Notes
John Forney was printer for this poster. The best descriptons of John Forney are the 19th century praises penned by his colleagues.
"There were giants in his day, and he was one of them. None was more to be honored than the young Pennsylvanian who came from his Lancaster home to found and direct a policy which was to sway the nation..." (John Russell Young)
"He wielded one of the most fertile pens in the whole country. ...He is a tower of strength in the editorial profession, and his rare mental vigor and complete mastery of the pen, justly entitle him to be regarded and styled the journalistic Achilles of the Western Continent." (Alexander Harris)
"Col. Forney ...is one of the princes of American journalism. No editor in Pennsylvania has made a deeper impression on the public mind." (Philadelphia Record. )
"...he was the foremost editor of Pennsylvania." (Philadelphia Inquirer.)
"He belonged to a class of men who build themselves into the civilization of their times..." (John Thomas Scharf.)
"Personally, to me, he was always noble, gracious, conciliatory;" (Walt Whitman)
Broadside: Sheriff's Sale - property of David Shreiner, land and log dwelling houses, etc., Novermer 9, 1861. Cochran's Steam Power Press, Union Office.
