Visual Materials

Grand gift concert

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1875
Call number: priJLC_SPO_003574
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More attractions : twenty-five capital gifts!

Visual Materials

Image of a broadside advertising a social banquet organized by Coburn & Co. for a lottery drawing taking place at the Union Hotel in Plaistow, New Hampshire on Thursday, November 7th, 1861. Tickets of admission cost two dollars, and prizes ranged from 5 cash gifts at $10.00 dollars each, to 200,000 gifts amounting to $400.00. The print is surrounded with a decorative border, and text on the broadside is written in about eight different font styles.

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Grand concert, by the Mendelssohn Society. : The sixth concert of this society will be given at Hotchkiss Hall, Thursday evening, April 27th, 1854

Visual Materials

Image of a broadside with text advertising an April 27, 1854, concert of the Mendelssohn Society, a musical association, at Hotchkiss Hall in Waterbury, Connecticut; pasted sheets for "Thursday" and "27th," in the date cover the original printed text of "Tuesday" and "18th."

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Sousa's grand concert band : Sousa's band at Manhattan Beach

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Image of the sixty-two members of John Philips Sousa's Grand Concert Band sitting with their musical instruments on stage with conductor John Philips Sousa standing at center, presumably for a performance at the Manhattan Beach Hotel in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Concert Bulletin

Manuscripts

A volume of bound bulletins printed in San Francisco, California. Bulletin title reads, "The Concert Bulletin: A Magazine of Musical News. The Official Program of Selby C. Oppenheimer's Attractions."

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Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters

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The Tony Newhall collection of rock concert posters consists of 62 offset lithographed concert posters produced from 1966 to 1967 for the Bill Graham concert series at the Fillmore Auditorium (later Fillmore West) in San Francisco, California. Bill Graham was a concert promoter who ran the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California, and the Fillmore East in New York City. Graham's concerts were originally designed to promote local-based San Francisco musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. His influence in promoting artists spread to the wider popularization of rock music during the late 1960s and 1970s counterculture movement. A total of 289 posters were created for the entire concert series spanning from 1966 to 1971; this collection contains the first 62 prints of the series. Tony Newhall assembled the collection by acquiring pieces from concerts he attended at the Fillmore Auditorium, from purchases made through vendors in the Bay Area, and through receipt of 20 prints from Bill Graham directly when he interviewed him as a student in Stanford. Images on the prints by artists Wes Wilson, Peter Bailey, Bonnie MacLean, and John H. Myers exemplify graphic design during the early years of the psychedelic era. Many of the printmakers also incorporated photographs taken by Edmund Shea, Gered Mankowitz, and Herb Greene of the musical performers in their prints. The concert posters include visual motifs of Art Nouveau-inspired curvilinear forms, illegible and fluid block lettering styles, and usage of vibrant optics and colors.

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Tea menu and concert program

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"Saturday, September 4, 1937"--p. [1], below heading. Tea menu and concert program on board the SS Mariposa. Focus of item: Mariposa.

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