Details
Creator Theo. Leonhardt & Son.
Title [Proof of membership certificate for a choral society, probably German- American society] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph, tinted with one stone; 52 x 68 cm.(20.5 x 26.5 in.)
Description Contains an ornamental border of greenery and vignettes of musical iconography. Includes the female allegorical figure of music holding a harp, laurel wreath, and attended by a cherub displaying a sheet of music on a pillow; a harp and scroll; and bust portraits of Mozart and Beethoven. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 191
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: **NB 1 75 - 402
Subject German Americans -- Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Music -- Societies, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Transfer lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Membership certificates -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP **NB 1 75 - 402