120
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
[BOURCICAULT, DION].
The Octoroon.
Folding, double-sided theatre playbill, 13 x 19
3
⁄
4
inches; vertical crease at the fold; some toning
and brief foxing at the left margin not affecting text.
Np, circa 1860
[800/1,200]
An unusual theatre broadside printed in two sec-
tions. One, the typical long playbill with all of the
sensational various sized printing fonts, while a sec-
ond fold of equal size outlines the play, scene by scene.
THE BOSTON PREMIERE
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
First
Week of the New and Intensely
Interesting Play Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or
Life Among the Lowly.
Letterpress theatre
broadside, 18
1
⁄
4
x 7
1
⁄
2
inches; attached to a sheet
from a large album, with a broadside for
another play attached to the reverse; slight
break in the upper part of the program (prior
to mounting). Boston: The Boston Museum,
November 18, 1852
[1,500/2,500]
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