Ball offered to Generalissimo Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca dance card
Unknown1890-10-26
Museu da Moda Brasileira
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Coat-of-arms-shaped card, having on the cover the portrait of Deodoro da Fonseca and a branch of coffee and a die. On the back cover, the inscription: "Dance offered to the head of the Provisional Government of the Exc. Generalissimo Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca by the Direct Commission of the Continental Exhibition in São Paulo". On the inner pages, program with decorated borders, with sixteen dances, being: 5 waltzes, 4 gangs, 4 polkas, 1 schottisch, 1 spearman and gallop; Female names written by pencil: A. Freire (scratched), E. Corrijores, A. Carvalho (scratched), Laura (scratched and written above there is Mme Leôncio de Carvalho). Yellow pencil with inscription "Johann Faber" attached to the card with a blue cord. Printed in the lower right corner: "Printing-house Guimarães & Ferdinando".
- Title: Ball offered to Generalissimo Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca dance card
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1890-10-26
- Location Created: São Paulo, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: A 11.0 X L 11.4 cm (aberto)
- Provenance: On the card, the lady or gentleman wrote down the names of each partner with whom she or he would dance throughout the night next to the name of the dance and the songs programmed for the dance. Attached to the card, there was always a pencil hanging from a cord or band that were tied to the wrist.
- Type: Dance card
- Photographer: Luke Garcia
- Rights: GOVERNO DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO / SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DE CULTURA / FUNDAÇÃO ANITA MANTUANO DE ARTES DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO – FUNARJ / CASA DA MARQUESA DE SANTOS - MUSEU DA MODA BRASILEIRA
- Medium: Paper, cotton, print, priting ink
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