Includes bill of fare for meal at Opera House on July 5, 1880 and list of committee members, including two aldermen and two councilmen.
Notes:
Issued sewn into illustrated lettered heavy pale blue paper wrapper; engraving on front cover of fringed textile, spray of leaves, landscape and sailing ship within double-line border; in lower margin: Engraved & copyrighted by John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, 1880.
Printed in black within red and gold horizontal bands on pages [1] and [4]
The Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider was a leading Providence bookseller, publisher …
