New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association broadsides and programs, 1867 and undated
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Summary
- Creator:
- Ladies' Southern Relief Association (New York, N.Y.), producer
- Abstract:
- Collection comprises thirteen programs and broadsides for private benefit musical concerts and dramas performed primarily in 1867. The majority feature dramas performed at Mr. Jerome's Private Theater. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
- Extent:
- 0.1 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Research Center:
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
- Collection ID:
- RL.11172
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection comprises thirteen programs and broadsides for private benefit musical concerts and dramas performed primarily in 1867. The majority feature dramas performed at Mr. Jerome's Private Theater. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
- Biographical / historical:
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The New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association was founded by Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan in New York City in December, 1866. Its purpose was to aid the starving and destitute women and children of the South, who had experienced crop failures following the Civil War. The organization collected funds, food, and clothing, and distributed them via southern clergy.
- Acquisition information:
- The New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association broadsides and programs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2000.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Alice Poffinberger, March 2016
- Arrangement:
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Organized chronologically.
- Physical facet:
- 13 items
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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