File talk:Buying tickets for a Charles Dickens reading at Steinway Hall, New York, New York, 1867.jpg

The title and former description of this file are incorrect, both on this website and on the Library of Congress site. This is a significant error, since it involves other Wikis, and other categories, and it is currently repeated all over the internet, on Wiki parasites and elsewhere. This is a prime example of the ways in which an original lack of care, in this case on the part of the LoC, is repeated without question throughout Wikiland and thereby takes on the appearance of accuracy. The illustration is of Steinway Hall in New York City, not Boston. There was no Steinway Hall in Boston. Dickens performed during December 1867 in Boston and New York. In Boston, the location was the Tremont Temple, and in New York, Steinway Hall on East 14th Street, at least for his second instalment of readings in that city. The Harpers Weekly article to which this engraving is attached made a feature of the crowds who queued all night outside Steinway Hall in New York, and who are consequently depicted in the drawing.

The New York Public Library has Dickens' diary for 1867, where the various readings and their locations are listed, and these are available in digital form online, at the Fathom website organised by Columbia University:

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701768/session5.html

I have altered the description attached to this engraving, and I intend to edit the Wiki pages which refer to it, but there seems to be no way of altering the title. Could someone advise me, please? --Pianolist (talk) 16:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)