Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Program |
Date |
September 1895 |
Title |
First Annual Richmond County Fair and Horse Show |
Description |
Program for the 1895 Richmond County Fair in Staten Island. The cover of the program has printed inscriptions in black and pink: "First Annual / Richmond / County / Fair / and / Horse / Show / September / 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, / 1895. / Price Ten Cents." The pages of the program include a description of Staten Island; a list of Richmond County Officers, 1895; histories of the S.R. Smith Infirmary, the Staten Island Hospital, and Sailors Snug Harbor; listings of the Fair Committees, exhibits, entries, and departments; "Daily Programme of Events;" and advertisements for numerous Staten Island and Manhattan businesses. The back cover has a full-page advertisement for Staten Island, "The Greatest of All Summer Resorts!" The page headed "BICYCLE RACES" has handwritten pencil notations in Alice Austen's handwriting, noting winners and times of the various races. Printed at the bottom of the last page: "This Programme / Was Printed at the office of the / RICHMOND COUNTY STANDARD, / 124 Jersey St., New Brighton." (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
From Alice Austen |
Ownership and History |
This program is part of a collection of personal items that came to the Staten Island Historical Society from Alice Austen in 1945. |
Earliest Date |
1895 |
Latest Date |
1895 |
Material |
Paper |
Subjects |
Fairs Horse shows Ephemera Bicycles & tricycles Bicycle shops |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Wanty, Joseph Ward Feist, Karl Ross, George Prall, Oscar Jones Austen, E. Alice Heissinger, Frank X. Vreeland, Cornelius S. Barth, Mrs. G. Meurer, George F. Kryszewski, Ignac T. |
Catalog Number |
45.002.0022 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, July 2019. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |