Name/Title
Card, DanceEntry/Object ID
1996.030.0239Scope and Content
Dance Card - off-white, folded card with black printing
"Second Annual...Masquerade Ball...Dominican Institute
Number fifty-six Y.L.I."
"Old State House / Benicia, California
Thanksgiving Eve,
November Twenty-third, Nineteen-hundred-ten."
Order of Dances on two sides inside - there are 20 dances listed plus 3 extras; there were also four prizes to be awarded for costumes (2 for Best Sustained Characters and 2 for most original characters)
Names of women (girls) were written in pencil for four dances (Constance McFar., Grace Quinn, Clara Kurtz, Blanche McCarthy (sp?)
On back: Committee of Arrangements: Nellie Malone, Blanche McCarthy, Emily Clyne, Mary Coleman, Irene Quinn; Floor Manager: Nellie Malone; Assistants: Genevieve Melle, Agnes McConlogue, Humphrey Lynch
size: folded: 5-7/16" length x 4-3/4" widthCollection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection