Ticket Collection

Ticket to a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson, June 25, 1959
The World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between African-American Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) and Swede Ingemar Johansson (1932-2009) was held at the Yankee Stadium in New York City

The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, at the office of a district provident society, Manchester, 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

Afflicted with the Jim-Jams, 1872. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Afflicted with the Jim-Jams, 1872. A street-car passenger tries to befuddle the ticket collector with nonsensical conversation

Ce qu'on appelle les séductions de Paris, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ce qu'on appelle les seductions de Paris, 1844. What we call the seductions of Paris. Une estale, not bourgeois...vous entendrez chanter ce soir Mme. Dorus-Grasse et Mr

Trompe l'Oeil - an Open Cabinet with Works of Art, 1670. Creator: Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts
Trompe l'Oeil - an open Cupboard with Works of Art, 1670

Excursion, [193-]. Creator: Unknown
Excursion, [193-]. Happiness Steamship Co. - First Class Fare - for "Excursion" by Victor Wolfson - Conducted by the Federal Theatre Project div of WPA...12th St Theatre near Clay'

'Studies of Life and Character at a Railway Station; Dog Ticket, 1890. Creator: Unknown
'Studies of Life and Character at a Railway Station; Dog Ticket, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Portrait of a grenadier holding a ticket in his hand, c1791. Creator: E Lussigny
Portrait of a grenadier holding a ticket in his hand, c1791

Ticket for boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston, 1965. Creator: Unknown
The fight, known as " Ali vs. Liston II" (the pair boxed previously in 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida), was Alis first after changing his name from Cassius Clay

Time smoking a picture, 1761. Artist: William Hogarth
Time smoking a picture, 1761.The allegorical figure of Time is a satire concerning Hogarths belief that art connoisseurs only valued paintings for their age

Illustration of products in Yoshida, Japan, 1804. Creator: Hokusai
Illustration of products in Yoshida, Japan, 1804

The Theater Outing, mid-1820s. Creator: Totoya Hokkei
The Theater Outing, mid-1820s

A Thrilling Incident During the Voting, 18th Ward, Philadelphia, October 11, 1864. A man whose son was killed in the American Civil War gets irate at the ballot box

Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks, September 15
The World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks was held at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana

Ticket for World Heavyweight Championship fight of Sonny Liston vs
Green narrow ticket for the World Heavyweight Championship between African-American boxers Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr

Hole punch used by Pullman porter Thomas McCord, 1940s. Creator: Unknown
Machine for punching tickets used by African-American porter Thomas McCord on the Pullman railway service. Being a Pullman porter was one of the jobs that helped build the black middle class in

Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Duke Ellington, 15067
The pass features information about the Y Camp Benefit Circus featuring Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra. The pass is half-cream colored

For the Track, 1895. Creator: John Frederick Peto
For the Track, 1895

The Authors Benefit: Pasquin, 1736. Creator: Unknown
The Authors Benefit: Pasquin, 1736

Time Smoking a Picture, ca. 1761. Creator: William Hogarth
Time Smoking a Picture, ca. 1761

Benefit Ticket for Spiller, 1788. Creator: Samuel Ireland
Benefit Ticket for Spiller, 1788

Benefit Ticket for Joe Miller, 1794-99. Creator: Samuel Ireland
Benefit Ticket for Joe Miller, 1794-99. Formerly attributed to William Hogarth, formerly attributed to Joseph Sympson, Jr

Lady Clerks Tabulating the American Census Returns, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Lady Clerks Tabulating the American Census Returns, 1901. From " The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume VI. February 1901-July 1901", by [Harmsworth Bros, Limited, London, 1901]

Masquerade Ticket, 1727, (1827). Creator: Unknown
Masquerade Ticket, 1727, (1827). Mock entrance ticket to a licentious masquerade with erotic symbolism: a statue of Priapus with antlers below; the figure of Time is stabbed by a bishop

Bournemouth Belle - Southern Railway, 1936. Advertisement for the Daily Pullman service, from London Waterloo to Southampton, (ticket prices: 1st class 20 shillings)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), legal tender notes issued by the City council of Borges Blanques (Lleida) and Hijar (Teruel), in 1936

Railway bridge across Globe Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1914. The north side of the railway bridge across the cobbled Globe Road

Great Eastern Railway Bridge over the Bow Road, Poplar, London, 1915. Ticket prices on the Great Eastern Railway at a penny single

Man stencilling signs for tram cars at Charlton Central Repair Depot, London, 1932. A man wearing an apron makes signs advertising cheap fares to be put on the sides of trams

Ticket for the London Hospital showing Christ and the disciples, c1825

A ticket of admission for a lady to Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London, 1848. With a view of the exterior of the Chapel

Ticket for the Leverian Museum, Albion Place, Southwark, London, c1805. Ticket to request the patronage of Mr Parkinson. Allegorical scene showing Time unveiling the mysteries of Nature whilst

Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, 1827. Artist: John Sturt
Church of St Giles without Cripplegate, City of London, 1827. Invitation ticket to the beating of the bounds celebrations, 1827

Columbus breaking the egg, 1753. Artist: William Hogarth
Columbus breaking the egg, 1753. Christopher Columbus demonstrates how an egg can be made to stand upright on a table. Prepared by Hogarth as a subscription ticket for his essay The analysis of

Gold, silver, and lead tickets admitting to Vauxhall Gardens, c1740, (1912). Artist: James Stow
Gold, silver, and lead tickets admitting to Vauxhall Gardens, c1740, (1912). Originally from designs by William Hogarth (1697-1764). From London - South of the Thames, by Sir Walter Besant

Engraved ticket for the Coronation ceremony of George III in Westminster Abbey 1761 (1906). Artist: George Bickham
Engraved ticket for the Coronation ceremony of George III (1738-1820) in Westminster Abbey, 1761. George succeeded to the throne when his grandfather, George II, died suddenly on 25 October 1760

Chair hire charge, Hyde Park, London, 1926-1927. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by Amalgamated Press, (London, 1926-1927)

An admission ticket to Vauxhall Gardens, 1786, (1912). A printed ticket for the Vauxhall Jubilee of 1786, a celebration of Spring Gardens own history

The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. Artist: William Hogarth
The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper) to be a bidder for Mr Hogarths pictures, which are to be sold on the last day of this month

Poster for Seaboard Air Line Ry, The Line to the Links, American, c1905. With the Golf Girl by Earl Christy

The Derby - The Return, 1859. In the General Election of 1859 that followed the defeat of Disraelis Reform Bill, the Conservatives made gains of some 30 seats

A provincial family was forced to pay a high price for an insignificant show. from the Little Miseries of Human Life, 1843

Ticket for the Pickwick Theatre, ca. 1940. Creator: Unknown
The world of entertainment, like so many other areas of life, was segregated along racial lines during this period of US history

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