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More attractions : twenty-five capital gifts!
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Grand gift concert
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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.
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Class 129, to be drawn in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, July 31st, 1860
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Image of a broadside listing information about lottery prizes, rewards, and ticket pricing for a lottery drawing taking place on July 31st, 1860 in Wilmington, Delaware. Whole tickets for the drawing are sold for five dollars, half tickets for two dollars and fifty cents, and quarter tickets for one dollar and twenty-five cents. The scheme on the print also lists totals of "32.396 prizes, ... amounting to $281.861." The rewards and title information are printed in bold. Towards the bottom of the print is an image of two hands shown pointing at text listing the rules of the lottery.
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L. D. Sine's gift enterprise, 1873 : the only reliable gift distribution in the country!
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Image of a broadside in red and green colors listing information about a lottery drawing organized by L.D. Sine that took place in St. Louis, Missouri in 1873. The print includes information about the different types of prizes awarded to winners, ranging from cash, gold, silver, watches, bracelets, silverware, utensils, tea sets, and other materials. Text on the print includes information about ticket prices, the total number of gifts available, and lists precautions for purchasing tickets from agents. Below the title, recto includes a detailed engraving of a blind-folded man holding up a piece of paper while spinning the lottery wheel. Top of verso includes a section labeled, "Manner of Drawing," describing how the drawings are called and what the process entails. Shown in this section is an engraving of a blindfolded young man with one hand on a lottery wheel, and the other holding up a piece of paper. Another man is seated near him by a desk, writing down the called lottery numbers. A crowd of people surround them, watching the drawing process. The rest of verso includes a detailed list of gifts to be drawn at the event.
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L. D. Sine's gift enterprise : established in 1854. The only reliable gift distribution in the country!
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Image of a broadside in red and blue colors listing information about a lottery drawing organized by L.D. Sine that took place in St. Louis, Missouri on January 1, 1874. The print includes information about the different types of prizes awarded to winners, ranging from cash, gold, silver, watches, bracelets, silverware, utensils, tea sets, and other materials. Text on the print includes information about ticket prices, the total number of gifts available, and lists precautions for purchasing tickets from agents. In the middle of the decorative title on recto is a decorative image of a blind-folded young man holding up a piece of paper while spinning the lottery wheel. Image is surrounded by decorative scrollwork. Top of verso includes a section labeled, "Manner of Drawing," describing how the lottery drawings are called and what the process entails. Shown in this section is an engraving of a blindfolded young man with one hand on a lottery wheel, and the other holding up a piece of paper. Another man is seated near him by a desk, writing down the called lottery numbers. A crowd of people surround them, watching the drawing process. The rest of verso includes a detailed list of gifts to be drawn at the event. Both recto and verso include a red decorative border.
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