FIFTH ANNUAL BALL OF ASTOROGAN ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2. WEDNESDAY, JAN'Y 22, 1851. Your Company is respectfully solicited at the Fifth Annual Ball of Astorogan Engine Company No. 2, to be given at Rockton Hall.[caption title]

Published by NP [Little Falls, NY?], 1851

About this Item

Small broadside, printed on scallop edged buff colored paper, 16 x 10 cm. Old fold lines, with some moderate soiling along folds on verso. Vignette of a wheeled fire engine in upper third of invitation. The Committee of Arrangements included Thomas Briggs, Foreman; J. Vosburgh, 2d Assistant; Charles Smith; Sam'l. H. Chase; and Henry W. Priest. Music by William B. Smith, of Syracuse. "Firemen will appear in full uniform." Although the place is not identified, Astorogan Rock in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, NY, gives its name to one of the town's newspapers, and to a saw mill. The town was also briefly named Rockton before reverting to its original name of Little Falls, a small town located to the east of Syracuse, NY. [see: "Development of Little Falls," (Little Fall, NY: 1911)].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FIFTH ANNUAL BALL OF ASTOROGAN ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2. WEDNESDAY, JAN'Y 22, 1851. Your Company is respectfully solicited at the Fifth Annual Ball of Astorogan Engine Company No. 2, to be given at Rockton Hall.[caption title]
• Publisher: NP [Little Falls, NY?]
• Publication Date: 1851
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana