invitations
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Engraved, printed, or written expressions requesting a person's company at a certain event at a given time and place.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Grand Purim Masquerade Ball Invitation
Item
Identifier: Mss 1034-107
Abstract
The collection consists of an invitation to a grand Purim masquerade ball at the Academy of Music on March 24, 1902. The ball was sponsored by the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Orangeburg, South Carolina, and printed on the invitation is a photograph of winners from the previous year's costume contest, among them Julia Peterkin, who, in 1929, won a Pulitzer Prize for literature. The invitation also contains a list of the ball's patronesses, arrangement committee, associate reception...
Dates:
1902
Found in:
Special Collections