Wedding Invitation

Object/Artifact

The Camron-Stanford House

Name/Title

Wedding Invitation

Entry/Object ID

2023.01.22

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

Mr. + Mrs. D. Hewes / request the pleasure of your presence / at the Marriage reception of their daughter, / Franklina C. Gray, / Thursday evening, March twenty-first, 1878, / from eight to ten o'clock, / 1218 Oak Street, / Oakland. / At Home / Tuesday April 2nd / Thursday April 4th / from 4 to 10 P.M

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Invitation

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Request

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Interpretative Labels

Label

Invitation to a reception honoring the wedding of Franklina C. Gray to William Bartlett. The wedding and subsequent receptions were held at the Camron-Stanford House. Writing to her mother from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where Franklina and William honeymooned, Franklina wrote: "If you send the Clarence over tomorrow couldn’t you pack my white satin & the veil handkerchief & gloves (&fan) & send them over for me to have my photo taken while here; it will save me the trouble of coming over for the purpose. If I only had time I would tell you some of the compliments paid you to the house & the wedding. Several said that they should always remember the wedding as a beautiful fairy scene." March 22, 1878, letters courtesy of Tracey Bartlett.

Label

Gift of Tracey Bartlett, 2023.