Kinnaird Hall poster, 20 November. No year.
Poster
This poster advertises a public lecture on “Courtship” by the American physician and lecturer Mrs Dr Longshore Potts at Dundee’s Kinnaird Hall. Promoted as a humorous and highly popular talk, the event blended entertainment with social commentary and reflects the growing prominence of women lecturers in the late nineteenth century. The poster also publicises Dr Potts’s medical practice, highlighting the diverse ways public figures combined education, performance, and professional promotion.
Object details
- Object type
- Poster
- Production date
- Nov
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 14.2 cm
- Museum number
- MH/KH/01
Source collection
Local History Centre Poster Collection, Dundee Central Library
The object’s story
Transcription
HEAR THE FAMOUS
LECTURE
ON
COURTSHIP
BY MRS.
DR. LONGSHORE POTTS
AT THE
KINNAIRD HALL,
DUNDEE,
THIS SATURDAY EVENING,
NOVEMBER 20th., AT EIGHT.
“The Lecture on Courtship is by far the most popular Lecture Dr. Potts delivers. It contained nothing which might not with propriety be discussed at the dinner table, it kept the audience in roars of laughter for nearly two hours; it was as good as an hour with Mark Twain.” — Times.
Admission 1s. and 6d.
Mrs. Dr. POTTS treats Diseases of Women and Children
RESIDENCE: – MATHERS’ HOTEL,
Entrance: – Whitehall Street.
Hours 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 6 to 8 p.m.
Dr. HARRISON treats Diseases of Men Only. Residence:— Mathers’ Hotel, Entrance:—Whitehall Street. Hours, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and 6 to 10 p.m. Consultations Free.
J. Ashworth, Printer, “Mammoth” Works, Broad Street, Halifax.