Harry Hill's Gotham - Page 18 of 28 - Sketches of 19th Century New York City Harry Hill's Gotham

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John Brown’s Body…In New York! [published Dec. 18, 1881]

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About this time twenty-two years ago the city...

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A Miscellany of Performer Anecdotes [published Jan. 8, 1882]

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I got interested the other day in readin’...

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Next Up for John L. Sullivan: John M. Laflin [published Nov. 9, 1884]

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Now that the election agony is over, the...

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George William Curtis Honors His Debt [published July 24, 1884]

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I am not a politician, and so don’t...

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The First Cases of Three Prominent Lawyers [published Dec. 4, 1881]

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One of the institutions of old New York...

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Italian Singers Fail to Impress New York Audience at Italian Opera [published June 25, 1882]

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I came across Max Maretzek the other day....

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Fun and Excitement Among the East Side Shipwrights [published July 23, 1882]

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[CAUTION: THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER COLUMN, WRITTEN IN 1882, CONTAINS...

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The Mettle of Three Actresses of the Past [published Nov. 12, 1882]

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It is not very often that I take...

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How Sandy Spencer Got to New York [published May 3, 1885]

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Sandy Spencer is dead, and the papers have...

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Counterfeiter Drury Outwits His Double-Crossing Associate, Marcus Cicero Stanley [published July 12, 1885]

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Marcus Cicero Stanley, the mysterious, has gone to the...