Item #108992 Majority of South Australia. Commemoration Festival, at Glenelg, on Monday, December 28, 1857, being the Twenty-first Anniversary since the Colony was proclaimed by Governor Hindmarsh. Programme of the Day's Proceedings [drop title]. South Australia.

Majority of South Australia. Commemoration Festival, at Glenelg, on Monday, December 28, 1857, being the Twenty-first Anniversary since the Colony was proclaimed by Governor Hindmarsh. Programme of the Day's Proceedings [drop title]

[Glenelg], Printed by Hilton & Co. [for the General Committee], 1857.

A small card (112 × 75 mm) printed on both sides; some staining (from adhesive residue) and slight surface loss (affecting some text); a decent copy of a very rare item.

The programme is principally a list of the competitive games and sports on offer (from a football match to 'Jumping in Sacks' and 'Greasy Tail Pig'). Offered together with an equally rare companion piece: 'Majority of the Colony. Two Original Songs, to be sung by Gentlemen Amateurs, during the Dessert in the Grand Pavilion, Glenelg, on Monday. December 28, 1857' (a handbill, trimmed down to 255 × 157 mm, printed recto only); numerous folds, with splits along some of them, but mounted on plain paper at some stage and now stabilized; a decent copy. A small printed label attached to the upper margin states 'from the pen of Mr O.K. Richardson'. The two songs in question are 'The Old Colonists' Song' and 'The Pioneers of South Australia'. The State Library of South Australia has one copy of each of these rarities; not surprisingly, Trove records no other holdings. [2 items].

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