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MONTGOMERY HALL. / THE PROPRIETORS OF THIS HOUSE, IN ORDE... seven paragraphs of text and eight lines "Terms of Board"].
Printed at the Alabama Journal Office, Montgomery, AL: [1841]. For guests at the lodging house, it sets forth the rules and amenities: rates (monthly, weekly, and daily), laundry service, room service, tipping, guests, and liability; one line in large bold type reads "Gambling Positively Prohibited." The fire fee was 25 cents, children and servants boarded at half price, except children at the "first table," who were charged full price. Apparently unrecorded. Not on OCLC. Not in Hummel or Ellison Alabama Imprints. Broadside, 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, employing various sizes and styles of type, text enclosed in a wide ornamental border and signed in type by "Washington Tilley & Co." and dated January 1, 1842 Lightly washed and backed in archival Japanese tissue; some old staining in lower corner, but very good.
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