Grandmother's 70th Birthday Celebration. Wainwright Hall, Great Barrington

Great Barrington MA: Berkshire Courier Print, for the compiler/author, 1899. Paperback. Peculiar keepsake and program, partly English and plenty of German, 7.5x5 inches; unpaginated textpages fastened with separators and way-too-heavy cardstock dividers that impart a hardbound feel, although the outer (title) leaves are pleasantly soft stuff nicely printed. Furnished with five (5) photographs-from-the-negative: group and individual photoportraits measuring 3.5x5 inches. A mix of humor (program directs audience to "laugh at all the funny remarks" during a recitation of "German tragedy", and texts and performers get a kidding. Photos each have a sunned area, sunned or over/under exposed, but all are else generally sound, and one shows a young lady in black-face. The whole edgeworn item is fastened with two purple ribbon-ties, one missing a torn-off end. Laid in are four copies (three clean, the fourth toned and dusty) of one of the bound signatures, the "laugh" instruction. German accents were considered ridiculous in this era, and the immigrated join in.

Cat.No: 311922

Price: $35.00