2025.011: Roseland Hall [St. George] dance posters

2025.011: Roseland Hall [St. George] dance posters

Tayte, P. G.

Creator(s) unknown

1926, 1937

Five sheets textual and graphic material

All posters currently rolled. Sizes as follows:

1926 Easter Ball posters: 76 x 110 cm
1926 Grand Ball posters: 117 x 76 cm and 177 x 77 cm
1937 Easter Ball poster: 106 x 66 cm

Items are five handmade posters for dances at Roseland Hall, St. George. Two promote an Easter Ball on April 5, 1926, held by Squadron C of the New Brunswick Rifle Association, one illustrated with a dancing couple signed P. G. Tayte, and the other with an unsigned illustration of two dancing children. Another two advertise a Grand Ball fundraising event for the St. George Band, held April 23, 1926, with illustrations signed P. G. Tayte, one depicting an elegant dancing couple and the other a uniformed man playing a large drum. The last is an incomplete textual poster for the 1937 Easter Ball at Roseland Hall, put on by the St. George Fire Department, with text penciled in but only five letters outlined in ink.