Details
Creator Illman & Sons, engraver.
Title Pennsylvania Horticultural Society [ticket] [graphic] / Illman & Sons.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [1855]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving mounted on paper; 8 x 11 cm.(3 x 4.25 in.)
Description Illustrated ticket to "Admit a Lady to the Stated Meetings of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society on the Third Thursday evening of each month Available for One Year ending Septr. 1855. This will also serve for a single admission to a Lady or Gentleman at the Annual Exhibition." Text framed by garlands of flowers. The society organized in 1827 with the mission "to inspire a taste for one of the most rational and pleasing amusements of man."
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
Subject Pennsylvania Horticultural Society -- Social aspects.
Flowers.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Tickets -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.4b]
Accession number 8608.F.4b