Gilded Age "Poverty Party" invitation in Dialect: Poverty Partty; Yew air axed to a Poverty Partty that us folks of the Ladies Aid Society of the Reformed Church air a=goin to have at the Auditorium Grange Park, on Thursday Nite, July the 10th, 1896
Allentown PA (?): 1896. Single sheet (8.75 x 5.75 inches) on yellow "oatmeal" paper, very good, tiny nick to bottom edge and two gentle horizontal creases, tiny pinholes at each corner. As usual, the text in the "dialect" associated with the poor. In 1896 these poverty poverties were all the rage among the well-off, as it was a way to "dress down" and help the poor in a time of great income inequality. Very Good. Item #H15903
Price: $125.00
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