Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... : To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano

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  Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Balls and Carnivals Prints and Ephemera

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  The Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Balls and Carnivals Prints and Ephemera contains approximately 150 printed items related to social and celebratory events primarily in the United States from the 1840s to 1940, with the majority of items dating from 1875 to 1900. The collection consists mainly of color lithographed invitations, programs, and tickets for various festive occasions including costumed dances and parties, such as Mardi Gras. Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (more than 11 x 14 inches). Items smaller than 8 x 10 inches in size are described broadly at the binder level; items larger than 8 x 10 inches in size are fully inventoried and all printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. The collection includes over a dozen large-size items comprised mainly of lithographed advertising posters for balls and pageants. Small-size items number over 100 and contain a variety of materials, including announcements, dance cards, invitations, posters, programs, and tickets; some items have manuscript text. Many of the invitations are ornately decorated die-cuts with features like ribbons or elaborate fold-out elements. Mardi Gras-related items comprise a significant part of the collection, including material from secret Mardi Gras societies Krewe of Proteus, Knights of Momus, Mystick Krewe of Comus, and Rex. Other social societies like the Priests of Pallas and the Veiled Prophets are also represented in the collection. While the majority of the material is American, the collection contains one winter carnival program from Montreal, Canada. The collection provides a resource for studying the history and evolution of American entertainment in the form of celebrations and pageantry through much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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