Attic treasure

Look what we found in the attic!

I haven't actually been in the attic; it's been too hot. One of the air conditioning contractors found a box with a bunch of these things....

Tickets to the Fifth German Mayfest in May, 1876! Admission 50 cents. And the Treasurer's name in the lower right corner? Our own Joseph Brockelmann, one of the very early owners of our house. The tickets are numbered on the back for the door prize drawing.

Now the question is...what do we do with them? An obvious choice would be to put some of them in a frame to hang on the wall, but wouldn't there be someone, somewhere, that would like to have some of these old tickets? I remember reading somewhere that the population of Galveston was about one-third German in the late 1800's. There must be a German contingent still here on the Island. Maybe I should ask at the Galveston Historical Foundation, or at the Rosenberg Library, which is a popular place to find historical information about the early inhabitants. I'd like to get these tickets into the hands of someone who really appreciates them. Any ideas?