[GARRISON] SUFFRAGE League of Boston and Vicinity

Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of William Lloyd Garrison, December 10 and 11, 1905

Boston: Suffrage League of Boston and Vicinity, [1905]. Souvenir Program. Quarto (27cm); staple-bound, coated paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Printed photographic portrait of Garrison inside front cover. Moderate external wear and soil; scattered spotting to contents; center 4-pp gathering pulled loose from staples but otherwise undamaged; complete and Good.

The two-day festival included remarks by Clement Morgan, Francis J. Garrison, W.H. Scott, William Stanley Braithwaite (composer of the Centennial Ode), Gov. William Lewis Douglas, Julia Ward Howe, and others, with a Centennial Oration delivered by Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom. Musical interludes were provided by John Hutchinson (of the Hutchinson Family), Nellie Brown Mitchell, Genevieve Lee, and numerous others. Includes several halftone illustrations, including a full-page reproduction of Garrison's 1851 broadside warning Black citizens of Boston against the "Watchmen and Police Officers of Boston...as they are empowered to act as Kidnappers and Slave Catchers..."

An expanded (and much more common) work with similar title was issued in 1906; the original program is scarce, a half-dozen physical locations noted in OCLC, not traced in commerce (as of September 2021).

Price: $175.00

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