"Lafayette Ball - The Honor of ______ Company is requested. Philadelphia Sept 1824." This card has not been completed and remains in blank original condition. From Wikipedia: "The Lafayette Welcoming Parade of 1824 was held in Philadelphia in September 1824 to welcome the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette on the occasion of his visit to the United States for a sixteen-month tour. Lafayette and his entourage arrived on the outskirts of Philadelphia on September 27, 1824 and were entertained with an evening ball in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania. They spent the night at the Frankford Arsenal. The next day an enormous, 6,000-man military escort drawn from the Pennsylvania militia was assembled. At 8:00 a.m. a 100-gun salute was fired to Lafayette who was, thereafter, driven at the head of the troops into the city in a carriage drawn by six white horses." From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives