[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 Manuscripts Folio A T 8Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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:
Liverpool Excursion Club for Enabling the Working Classes to Visit London in 1851. | Isaac, John Raphael -- Provenance. | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) | Pinkney, R. -- Printer.