An eighteenth-century invitation to a ball in Antigua.
Creators: Unknown
Date of Creation: 1768
Place of origin: Saint John’s, Antigua
Physical measurements: 7 x 10 cm
Materials: Heavy paper and ink
Process by which it was made: Text printed, type ornament
Current location: Library Company of Philadelphia
Further Reading
Barringer, Tim and Wayne Modest, eds. Victorian Jamaica. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Frohnsdorff, Gregory. “‘Before the Public’: Some Early Libraries of Antigua.” Libraries & Culture 38 (2003): 1–23.
Goodman, Glenda. “Joseph Johnson’s Lost Gamuts: Native Hymnody, Materials of Exchange, and the Colonialist Archive.” Journal for the Society of American Music 13.4 (2019): 482-507.
Information contributed by Maria Ryan.