[Broadside] Camp Fire!
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- Jamestown, Dakota Territory: s.i., 1885
Jamestown, Dakota Territory: s.i., 1885. Very Good. Jamestown, Dakota: n.d., [ca. 1885]. Small printed broadside handbill (19.5x15cm.) trimmed and mounted to leaf of ruled paper (21x16.5cm.), evidently removed from a larger scrapbook (see below). Old fold lines and light dust-soil, contemporary manuscript note along left-hand edge trimmed with some loss of meaning, else Very Good.
Unrecorded hand flyer announcing a camp fire evening of entertainment at the New Skating Rink at the Wm. H. Seward Post, No. 65, G.A.R., in Jamestown, Dakota territory. Attendees delivering addresses included Governor Gilbert A. Pierce and General W.T. Clark. Singing of Old Army Songs and storytelling also on the docket, though "Comrades are required, in relating to their Army experiences, to linger as closely around the ragged edge of the truth as they can." Admission cost 10 cents, supper 25. "Dudes and Dudesses, Half Price," arguably one of the earliest appearances of either term: the OED notes that the word only came into vogue in 1883. Date of publication based on governorship of Gilbert A. Pierce, a post he held from 1884 to 1887.
On verso of the leaf are mounted two news clippings, one announcing "Tea Table Berths," "to be had of the ladies and other friends" (ship unknown). The latter clipping a comic anecdote titled "Archibald and the baby."
Camp Fire broadside evidently unrecorded, with no copies in the trade or OCLC as of April, 2025.
Unrecorded hand flyer announcing a camp fire evening of entertainment at the New Skating Rink at the Wm. H. Seward Post, No. 65, G.A.R., in Jamestown, Dakota territory. Attendees delivering addresses included Governor Gilbert A. Pierce and General W.T. Clark. Singing of Old Army Songs and storytelling also on the docket, though "Comrades are required, in relating to their Army experiences, to linger as closely around the ragged edge of the truth as they can." Admission cost 10 cents, supper 25. "Dudes and Dudesses, Half Price," arguably one of the earliest appearances of either term: the OED notes that the word only came into vogue in 1883. Date of publication based on governorship of Gilbert A. Pierce, a post he held from 1884 to 1887.
On verso of the leaf are mounted two news clippings, one announcing "Tea Table Berths," "to be had of the ladies and other friends" (ship unknown). The latter clipping a comic anecdote titled "Archibald and the baby."
Camp Fire broadside evidently unrecorded, with no copies in the trade or OCLC as of April, 2025.