Image of a central vignette of a jester dressed in an American-flag-colored costume with a lyre attached by a ribbon on his back and holding a jester puppet head on a stick, riding on the back of a dolphin-like fish, which swims through the water besides two bare-chested boys who blow into shell horns, with the sunrise in the background; the item has a die-cut shape and is bordered with images of sleigh bells; the item advertises a February 19, 1880, masquerade ball at Madison Square Garden in New York City that was sponsored by the Arion Society, a German-American musical social organization. Die-cut shape; date based on item title. "Neuman & Dinglinger, Cor. Pearl & Elm Sts. N.Y."--text, bottom center margin. "Tickets $5.00 Admitting one gentleman and lady / extra ladies tickets $3.00 / For sale by / Michaelis & Lindeman, 21 Wall St. & 393 B'way. C.M. Vom Baur, 89 Mercer St. Spangenberg & Boettcher, 699 Sixth Av. / Ashbel P. Fitch, 93 Nassau cor. Fulton St. Hanft Bros., 795 Broadway & 224 Fifth Av. Henry Haar, 213-221 East 54th. St. / F.J. Kaldenberg, 125 Fulton St. & 6 Astor House. All Members, Geo. Ehret, E. 92d. St. / P. Heysler, Windsor Hotel. and at Arion Hall, 19-21 St. Marks Place. R. Katzenmayer, 83 Liberty St."--text, continuation of title, lower half of item.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 36.83 x 27.94 cm (14 1/2 x 11 in.)
Balls (Parties) Clowns--Pictorial works Fools and jesters--Pictorial works Masquerades Music--Societies, etc Arion Society of New York Madison Square Garden Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Balls and Carnivals The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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