One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond

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  One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond

  Rare Books

  Submaps of other Southern cities so the public could follow reports of their destruction. Mention of the entrance of national troops into Richmond indicates a date after April 1865. "3000 of Magnus all around Map." "Dedicated to the gallant Soldiers fighting to suppress the Rebellion." "One dollar map & song portfolio contents: all around large map of the territory of the rebellion ; 12 illustrated song note-sheets ; a commemoration tableau of the triumphant entrance of the national troops into Richmond, Vir., April 3d, 1865." Submaps: Varying miles around Natches, Chatanooga, Galveston, Charleston, Montgomery, Augusta, Memphis, and Nashville. Interesting cover. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Maps Richmond, Va. Chas. Magnus 46184.

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  M.W. Hanley's Company presenting Edward Harrigan's latest New York success McSorley's Inflation

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  Image of an eight-page theatrical courier including the front cover with a bust statue of American playwright and actor Edward Harrigan being pointed to by a caricature of Martin W. Hanley who stands nearby with a globe; a back cover page with an image presumably of Irish-American character Peter McSorley talking to his wife, portrayed by a female impersonator, in her grocery stall at Washington Market with watermelons and chickens in the background; a page with the lyrics of songs from the play including some written by Dave Braham; a page with the show's program; a page with three vignettes of an African American military regiment marching through the streets captioned "Charleston Blues," a six-piece band playing in the street with the sign "Salvation Army," and two women arguing in a grocery store captioned "Washington Market"; a page with seven vignettes of character portraits of a man at different ages including as a baby, child, soldier, and old man titled "The Seven Ages in 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare"; a page with short humorous articles as well as statistics of the "Population of States and Territories in 1880"; a page with two vignettes of a crowd of dancing white men and women and black men captioned "McNally's Row of Flats," and a street scene with a grocer arguing with a man while a woman looks on and a Chinese immigrant falls out of a window while holding a trombone, and an African American man carries a bundle of laundry into a store with storefront signs for the "Coroner's Office" and "Hung Lung Laundry" behind and the caption "Chinese Must Go"; the courier advertises the musical comedy "McSorley's Inflation" written by Edward Harrigan.

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