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Text: Mary E. Phillips, “Illustration,” Edgar Allan Poe: The Man (1926), illustration, vol. I, p. 75


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Park or New Theater, 1797, New York City

PARK, OR NEW THEATRE, OF 1797

From “Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register and City Directory,” 1797, burnt 1820

Photograph sent by Alex. J. Wall, Librarian, New York Historical Society


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Notes:

The caption is meant to state, of course, that the theatre building burned down in 1820, not the almanackfrom which the engraving was taken.


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