[Collection of material relating to the Liverpool Excursion Club for Enabling the Working Classes to Visit London in 1851], [1851]
- Title(s):
- [Collection of material relating to the Liverpool Excursion Club for Enabling the Working Classes to Visit London in 1851].
- Physical Description:
- 9 pieces ; 8-33 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A T 8Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/828064
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- The Liverpool Excursion Club was organized to collect weekly subscriptions for a low-cost excursion train to London to view the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Material in this collection was gathered by John R. Isaac, one of the auditors & a commissioner for Liverpool. It includes a broadside advertising the club, a bank deposit book, a book recording the payments of subscribers, subscription card of one Thomas Robinson, a lithographed form letter to newspaper publishers asking for promotional consideration, and the final notice to subscribers of scheduled departure of the train from Liverpool to London on 5 July, 1851.
Sparling, T. Great Exhibition, 171. - Subject Terms:
- Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)Isaac, John Raphael -- Provenance.Liverpool Excursion Club for Enabling the Working Classes to Visit London in 1851.Pinkney, R. -- Printer.
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