Centenary Institute. / Male Department. / June 28th, 1858. / Forenoon Exhibition. / [followed by the program, a list of student speakers, with their topics]

Selma, AL: Printed at the “Daily State Sentinel” Job Office, 1858. Printed handbill, 7 7/8 x 5 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Among the essays to be delivered were “The Union,” “The Rights of the South,” “Social Fabric of America,” “The Schoolboy’s Hope,” and “The Past and the Present.” Musical selections were performed at intervals. Centenary Institute, located in Summerfield, near Selma, was the largest school in mid-Alabama prior to the Civil War, supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church; its fortunes declined following that conflict and its doors closed in 1885. Centenary Institute does not appear in Owen. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Rubbed and faded, but very good. Item #66890

Price: $200.00