Greetings from the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls [Christmas card]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Home for Irish Immigrant Girls, 1909. Cards. Four-panel card with poem inside, issued in the name of Rev. M.J. Henry, director of the Home, for Christmas 1909 and New Year 1910. Exterior surfaces mildly foxed and rubbed. "Where e'er there throbs an Irish heart, it fondly beats to-day / For friends in that far distant land, so many miles away..." The Mission offered temporary accommodation, employment referrals, and other support for women just arriving from Ireland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 279541
- Title
- Greetings from the Home for Irish Immigrant Girls [Christmas card]
- Format/Binding
- Cards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Home for Irish Immigrant Girls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1900S; Women; Immigration; New York City; Irish American;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...