1883 Dance Card SAN FRANCISO POLICE DEPTMENT Widow’s & Orphan’s Aid Association

Description

1883
Dance Card
SAN FRANCISO POLICE DEPTMENT
Widow’s & Orphan’s Aid Association
DESCRIPTION:
1883
Dance Card [booklet, pamphlet]
GRAND BALL OF THE Widow’s & Orphan’s Aid Association POLICE DEPTMENT
[
3 stars
in corners have
1.
S.F. (San Francisco),
2.
P. (Police),
3.
D. (Department)]
MECHANICS’ PAVILION, Wednesday Eve., November 14 th, 1883
; Wood and Strickland, Printers, 740 Market St., [San Francisco] New Year Calling Cards a Specialty; Stiff paper embossed colored covers; stapled and string tied; center vignette pasted over frilled fabric; 8-page Dance Card [booklet pamphlet];
size 3-5/8 inches by 3-5/8 inches; contains Arrangement Committee, Reception Committee, Order of Dances, Floor committee, Officers, Trustees etc.
CONDITION:
Very good,
light staining to bottom of first pages
[see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item.
HISTORY:
The Widows’ and Orphans’ Aid Association
of the
San Francisco Police Department
was founded on January 13th, 1878.
This Association was organized for the specific purpose of providing financial assistance to the loved ones of the individual member. The police officer is engaged in a hazardous profession, the recognition of which necessitates his preparing for the sudden and unexpected loss of his life. The family he leaves behind is seldom insured to such a contingency and so the benefits provided by membership in the Association become most helpful at a helpless moment.
Our Association is not an insurance company nor is it a political body. In the many years of our existence the Widows’ and Orphans’ Aid Association has never affiliated with any other organization of individual. We pride ourselves on being a good-will Association, flourishing upon the good-will of our members and the good-will of our legion of friends in the City of San Francisco.
Throughout the entire history of this benevolent Association our only concern has been the welfare of our members’ bereaved. It is the sincere wish and desire of each member that aim be perpetrated.
SHIPPING:
All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend] by USPS Media mail [unless other arrangements have been made with seller].
[SL – B2 – S4
(code to locate the item)
]