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== Historic Two Dimensional Works ==
 
== Historic Two Dimensional Works ==
  
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*pr.1927.303.li: '''[[Miraculous Picture of the Virgin Mary]]'''
  
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''Miraculous Picture of Virgin Mary''. Framed Lithographic print. Said to be from White River Junction. Before 1927, c.e.  
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Inscription in wax crayon, dark green, on reverse: “Flood to top wall  This picture was in flood a week till water went down” Survived the 1927 Flood with no damage to its finish, colors, or paper support, an example of the power of faith relative to uncontrollable, or horrendous, natural catastrophes.  
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*Winter Parking Signage from White River Junction's Downtown. Paper sign with plastic protective sheet and painted wooden strips, white in color.  
  
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Bought from a collector in Wells River, Vt. an example of inexpensive prints available commonly for use in the homes of Roman Catholics throughout the region in dry-goods stores and though mail order catalogs. Our copy, however, was used in a drawing room close by the waters of the Connecticut River as they rose to record heights in March of 1927. This was the same disastrous season which brought then President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, to his native State. During a state-wide tour of disaster sites he presented his memorable address at Bennington, beginning, “Vermont is a State I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Pico, Killington, or the Equinox without being moved in way that no other scene could move me...” See: [[Silt from the 1927 Flood]], Minerals.
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(''Pre-1997 Museum'')
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*Poster, “Dance on the Winter Gardens...” Broadside, Letterpress printed on tinted cardboard. White River Junction region. ca. mid-20th century, c.e.
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Jimmy Packard and his Dixie Five, long time performers in the White River Jct. area, advertised their services in this poster for an event at the Dance Hall “above the Bowling Alleys.” As these alleys were later a nightclub (“Northern Lights Blues Bar”) and then, in the 1980s, the Lena’s Lunch restaurant 42 South Main Street, the dance hall must have been the second floor of this building, which by the 1980s had tragically devolved into a slum tenement in the hands of absentee landlords. This building was torn down around 2001.
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po.1927.672.ht (Pre-1997 Museum, former catalog number 36.)
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[[category:Two Dimensional Works]]
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[[category:Posters]]
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[[category:Prints]]
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[[category:Signage]]

Latest revision as of 14:46, 21 May 2010

Historic Two Dimensional Works

pr;1993;64;br.
  • Winter Parking Signage from White River Junction's Downtown. Paper sign with plastic protective sheet and painted wooden strips, white in color.
si.1893.35.pl
  • Poster, “Dance on the Winter Gardens...” Broadside, Letterpress printed on tinted cardboard. White River Junction region. ca. mid-20th century, c.e.

Jimmy Packard and his Dixie Five, long time performers in the White River Jct. area, advertised their services in this poster for an event at the Dance Hall “above the Bowling Alleys.” As these alleys were later a nightclub (“Northern Lights Blues Bar”) and then, in the 1980s, the Lena’s Lunch restaurant 42 South Main Street, the dance hall must have been the second floor of this building, which by the 1980s had tragically devolved into a slum tenement in the hands of absentee landlords. This building was torn down around 2001. 

po.1927.672.ht (Pre-1997 Museum, former catalog number 36.)
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