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Unknown Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.013.01 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadsheet Date: circa 1910 Pagination: 2 p. ; 31 x 23 cm. Order a Copy

J. H. J. Ronner announces a play by Harkins and Barbour of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 200 people in the cast. Boosts, "Cotton pickers, dancers, jubilee singers, Mississippi steamboat." "Scenically the most mammoth production of modern times." At the Majestic Theatre. A scene from the play is printed on both sides. Circa date based on type of newsprint and photography.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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