1883 Dance Card SAN
FRANCISO POLICE DEPTMENT Widow’s & Orphan’s Aid Association
DESCRIPTION: 1883 Dance
Card [booklet, pamphlet] GRAND BALL OF THE Widow’s & Orphan’s Aid Association
POLICE DEPTMENT [3 stars in corners have 1. S.F. (San Francisco), 2. P. (Police), 3. D. (Department)] MECHANICS’ PAVILION, Wednesday Eve.,
November 14 th, 1883; Wood
and Strickland, Printers, 740 Market St., [San Francisco] New Year Calling
Cards a Specialty; Stiff paper embossed colored covers; stapled and string tied;
center vignette pasted over frilled fabric; 8-page Dance Card [booklet pamphlet]; size 3-5/8 inches by 3-5/8 inches; contains
Arrangement Committee, Reception Committee, Order of Dances, Floor committee,
Officers, Trustees etc.
CONDITION: Very
good, light staining to bottom of first pages [see scans].
SECURITY: ARGUS BOOKS [or other wording] in PINK may have been super-imposed
over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual
item.
HISTORY: The Widows’ and Orphans’ Aid Association of the San Francisco Police Department was founded on January 13th, 1878.
This Association was
organized for the specific purpose of providing financial assistance to the
loved ones of the individual member. The police officer is engaged in a
hazardous profession, the recognition of which necessitates his preparing for
the sudden and unexpected loss of his life. The family he leaves behind is
seldom insured to such a contingency and so the benefits provided by membership
in the Association become most helpful at a helpless moment.
Our Association is
not an insurance company nor is it a political body. In the many years of our
existence the Widows’ and Orphans’ Aid Association has never affiliated with
any other organization of individual. We pride ourselves on being a good-will
Association, flourishing upon the good-will of our members and the good-will of
our legion of friends in the City of San Francisco.
Throughout the
entire history of this benevolent Association our only concern has been the
welfare of our members’ bereaved. It is the sincere wish and desire of each
member that aim be perpetrated.
SHIPPING: All
paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are
1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of
cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend]
by USPS Media mail [unless other arrangements have been made with seller]. [SL
– B2 – S4 (code to locate the item)]