Hey, are you busy tonight? There's a stereopticon show down at the Methodist Church. I was thinking of going. It's views of Rome.
It's only 10 cents. Paper says "Sunday School teachers and scholars will be especially interested." Well, we're neither of those, but it beats working on my quilting squares. Like to go? OK! I'll come by your house at 7. See you then!
--April 25, 1885 Ypsilanti Commercial
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Horace Hitchcock was a busy man; he gave two other of these illustrated lectures in 1897 to the Detroit Museum of Art, one on "Old London Town", and one on "Paris and its Monuments".
The DIA has a copy of the annual report which includes this; there's some very good stuff in there and a number of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti names.
Here's our Mr. Hitchcock in person: the link to his bio in "Detroit in history and commerce", 1891.
Ooh. Neat link, as usual!
My word, what a mustache! Kind of like a follicular cow-catcher; I'm glad my sweetie doesn't cultivate such a lip-thicket.
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