1878 PENINSULA AGRICULTURAL & POMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Annual Exhibition Delaware

Antique, Original

1878

Delaware

PENINSULA AGRICULTURAL & POMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Annual Exhibition

Committee of Arrangements Plans & Catalog

This is an original, official member book from the Peninsula Agricultural and Pomological Association, planning for the Fifth Annual Exhibition at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware on October 2-4, 1878.

Measures 8” x 5 1/2”.

45 pages, plus 17 unnumbered pages of ads at the end.

Includes committee members list, regulations, and shows all categories and items that would be on exhibition with rewards, including best Cattle and other Livestock, Produce, Fruit, Flour, Farm Implements, Textiles, Cakes, Cheeses, Jellies, “Catsups”, and much more with very interesting items like “Walnut Catsup”.

Amazing archive of a moment in history!

Great advertisements with amazing wood cut typography and graphic illustrations the last section of 17 pages.

CONDITION:

Excellent, antique pre-owned condition. Missing front cover. Otherwise complete and well preserved. Bound with no front cover. Back cover is present. See photos for details.

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