Details
Creator Theo. Leonhardt & Son.
Title Junger Maennerchor [membership certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph, tinted with two stones; 51 x 67 cm.(20 x 26.25 in.)
Description Membership certificate for the German-American choral society founded in 1852. Includes an ornamental border and vignettes. Vignettes depict a Grecian-attired female with harp; an American eagle grasping a harp and a banner marked with the establishment date of the society; the female allegorical figure of music holding a harp, laurel wreath, and attended by a cherub displaying a sheet of music on a pillow; and a view of the society's hall at the N.W. corner of Sixth and Vine streets. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 128
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: **NB 1 75 - 403
Subject Junger Maennerchor.
German Americans -- Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Choral societies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Membership certificates -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP **NB 1 75 - 403