Broadside
- Title:
- Please Do Not Peel Bark from the Birch Trees
- Object Name:
- Broadside
- Object ID:
- 2018.001.02
- Date:
- circa 1915
- Description:
- Broadside printed on fabric. Black ink on white cotton: "PLEASE DO NOT / PEEL BARK / FROM THE / BIRCH TREES". Black border. Unused.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-9 W-11.8 inches
- Provenance:
- From the estate of John Jacob Glessner (1843-1936) and his wife Frances Macbeth Glessner (1848-1932). Their summer estate in Bethlehem, NH, known as The Rocks, is now owned by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The donor is the widow of Charles Foster Batchelder III (1930-2016), who was a great grandson of the Glessners. Charles III's mother donated the Glessners' Abbot-Downing express wagon to NHHS in 1978.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Virginia Batchelder
- People:
- Glessner, John J. (1843-1936)
- Subjects:
- Birch trees, Bark
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