Image of a broadside printed in the Denison Daily Times Job Rooms section advertising a gift concert taking place on March 31, 1875. The event was organized by the Texas Gift Concert Association (Secretary, Alpheus R. Collins) to gather funding for public improvements in the city. Tickets of admission cost one dollar, and prizes ranged from “1 grand cash gift of $50,000” to a total of 49,789 gifts amounting to $250,000. Text on the print is listed in three columns, the central text includes information about gifts, and the side columns include references and names of former prize winners. "Grand gift concert. In aid of public improvements in the city of Denison, Texas. Improvements under the supervision of the mayor & common council." --text, title. "Address all communications to Alpheus R. Collins, Secretary, Denison, Texas." --text, bottom of print.
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1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 38.1 x 25.72 cm (15 x 10 1/8 in.)
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