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Identifier: harpersweeklyv9bonn (find matches)
Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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OF BARNUMS AMERKJAN AH SEUM AS SEEN THE MORNING AFTER THE FIRE.-(Skctchkd by A. R. Vadd.) BURNING OF BARNUMS MUSEUM. Though not the oldest, yet certainly the mostnotable of the landmarks of our city, 1ms been re-moved by fire. Last winter, it will be remembered, Park Row and Ann Street. What tbe plot of theincendiary faihd to do accident has .successfully nc-compli-lud, and the Museum lies in ashes. wood, at about lialf after 12 oclock on Thursday,July 33. Tbe hour for such a catastrophe couldnot have been more fitly chosen. There were com-paratively few persons in the Museum, and these allescaped without injury. Very little of the property
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LAUNCHING OF THE UNITED STATES SHIP MADAWASKA, July 8, 186B.-(P, HARPERS WEEKLY. (July 29, 1865 abate Uu roof !Tho«pectad ple.i.di-1 which we ever beheld. There v 1 pyre. There were f. uniforms worn by te tools and Bpeci- of the handiwork i, tl. lens of the mineral am the most beautiful coll. was the I.gvptian iv v, lu. h h l1 d.lif1 I<V for three thousand hut was nnw compelled o vield to the cl,- of fire. These things .could not be repro- ,i„,l wore therefore inval nfthe Happy Family. old word. A panici early stage ■Il»- rush fur a happy thought of his, that of inaugurating hi playsunder the name of tho Moral Drama. Thodiffer-ence between the plays and those performed atothor theatres was not discernible. Every thing■which belonged to any play—even the ballet girls—belonged also to the plays at the Museum. Andyel clergymen with their families, and hosts of others tended Waixacks or N turns, would sit with a good -, is impossible to recordere regret for the loss smunity

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