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Grand illustrated lectures at [blank] on [blank] : The lights and shadows of a great city : The life of the lowly vividly portrayed in illuminated pictures : Round about New York City in the heart of its slum life.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Mapcase F128.68.F56 G73 1872
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York.
- City and town life.
- Slums.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Slums--New York (State)--New York.
- Lectures and lecturing.
- Five Points (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Blank forms.
- Forms (documents)
- Broadsides.
- Playbills.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 71 x 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Lights and shadows of a great city
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.?] : [publisher not identified], [after 1872?]
- Notes:
- Broadside.
- Possibly based on James D. McCabe's popular 1872 subscription publication, Lights and shadows of New York life.
- "Synopsis[:] Five Points institutions[,] Street arabs[,] Tenement house life[,] Along the docks[,] The saloon[,] The cheap lodging house[,] The city prison[,] The race track[,] The potter's field, etc., etc. Numerous startling mechanical effects".
- At foot of sheet: Doors open [blank] Commences [blank] Admission [blank] Children [blank].
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2015 from Ian Brabner Rare Americana with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 915065400
- Online:
- The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page
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