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Playbills, British and American, Eight Examples. Printed broadsides advertising various theatrical productions including: Professor Anderson at Pike's Opera House, with a large woodcut portrait of the performer; a large broadside playbill printed on yellow paper with a large woodcut portrait of Colonel A.W. Scott, ex-detective, advertising the Detective's Museum in Philadelphia, c. 1878; a minstrel show featuring the Ethiopian Serenaders with a full-length woodcut portrait of E. Horn; and five others, most framed. (8)
Estimate $200-300
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Anderson, E. Horn, A.W. Scott, PhiladelphiaJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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