PLEASE READ, / AND REMEMBER TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION! / LOAN COLLECTION, / PICTURE GALLERY / AND / MUSEUM! / BECKETT'S HALL, MAIN STREET. CALAIS, ME.[caption title]

Published by NP [Calais, ME?], 1870

About this Item

Small broadside, printed on dark blue paper, in various sizes and styles of type. 24 x 14.5 cm. The exhibition offered "curiosities from all parts of the known world" including: Rare coins, books, pamphlets, minerals, fossils, Articles of Vertu, a Collection of swords, a fine specimen of the Octopus, etc. Admission 25 cents, children half price. J. C. Beckett. Manager. According to an article on the St. Croix Historical Society website, John G. Bennett (1828-1889) arrived in Boston, Massachusetts from Scotland in about 1846. He moved to Calais, Maine in 1851 and opened a bakery and confectionery. By 1870 he was also operating this museum on Main Street until Beckett Hall and the buildings surrounding it burned in the Great Fire that same year.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PLEASE READ, / AND REMEMBER TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION! / LOAN COLLECTION, / PICTURE GALLERY / AND / MUSEUM! / BECKETT'S HALL, MAIN STREET. CALAIS, ME.[caption title]
• Publisher: NP [Calais, ME?]
• Publication Date: 1870
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana