[Rarebooks] FS: 1840 Bunker Hill Monument Fundraising Fair Newspaper

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

>From our new DECEMBER catalog-
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[Bunker Hill Monument] "THE MONUMENT" Vol.1, No.2. Boston; Wednesday,
September 9, 1840. “Published Daily at Quincy Hall”.

The second issue of a daily promotional paper issued during the Bunker
Hill Monument Fair, an event at Quincy Hall in Boston which was raising
funds for the completion of the Revolutionary War monument. The first page
includes a woodcut of “the obelisk” and a poem, as well as the Regulations
of the fair regarding the behavior and trade practices of the men and
ladies manning each exhibition table- “Each lady will endeavour that the
articles on her table shall be good of their kind, and at fair prices”;
“confectionary shall be sold at the same price as at shops”; “there shall
be no raffles...nor any device connected with local politics”; and so on.

The next three pages include more poems, part of a short story, and
advertisements for the articles offered at various fair tables-

- "For sale at the Cambridge table, a few models of the Bunker Hill
Monument, made of ground glass"

- "Two elegant needle-work Fire Screens for sale at No.10"

- "Ladies dress caps of the latest and most elegant fashions, at Table No.32"

- "Fairy Lady. At home every day, and all day. Call at her Bower, No.18"

- "A Chair in which Queen Victoria herself might be proud to sit, may be
seen at the New Bedford table, No.31"

Door receipts for the first day of the Fair were $2,000. 7”x11”, a sheet,
folded to make 4 pages; folded, light soil, bottom corner chipped with no
text loss. [09860] $85.00

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