1898 Camp Humphreys Summer Hops Dance Card West Point Fort Clinton Buckner etc

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1898 Camp Humphreys Summer Hops Dance Card.
This was the summer training camp before USMA moved to what is now Camp Buckner in 1942. West point summer encampment.  This training camp was moved to Lake Popolopen southwest of the main campus and named Camp Popolopen on 21 Apr 1942.
Fort Buckner was named in honor of Lieutenant General
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
., who was killed in action while commanding the Tenth Army during the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.
Names on the card include: Honeycutt, Van Duyne, Johnston, Herron, Schull, Hunt, Kelly, Granger,
Dreka Stationers Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Stationary and engraving
Steel plate engraving, etc
[1425-1427 Chestnut Street] 1429-1437 Chestnut Street (Jefferson Moak, 1/1983) Philadelphia Historical Commission Files, Philadelphia
Louis Dreka
1121 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
In the late 1800's, the steel engraving capitol of America was Philadelphia. The process was invented in the city, and it was home to the U.S. Mint. Most of the bank note companies were based in Philadelphia, producing the era's many varieties of greenbacks, private issue currency bills, stock certificates, and stamps. At 1121 Chestnut Street, not far from the mint, were the offices of Louis Dreka . Louis Dreka was in the stationery business, and did a great deal of business with the college community, printing dance programs, invitations, calling cards, and such. He was also a very fine engraver and produced many wonderful fraternal engravings before the fraternities standardized crests during the national conventions of the early 1900s, the engraver had a great deal of input on the final designs. Many of the mystical allegorical vignettes of the 1880s and '90s can be credited to Louis Dreka , who signed his work " Dreka , Phila ." Conditon is very nice