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Article: HOBOCAN HACKINGH. Barnum; Indians; Elysian Fields. Extract from Winfield, published in Hoboken newspaper, Jan. 25, 1896.
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Newspaper article: HOBOCAN HACKINGH
The Fun on "The Green" a Source of Wonder to Visitors.
Great Crowds Cross the River
An the Indians Who Were Secured to Give a War Dance Took Fright and Fled to Bergen Swamps and hid in the Swamps.
(Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken.)
Published Saturday, January 25, 1896 in a local newspaper (name not known, but display ads on reverse are Hoboken businesses.) A long (but not full height) single column (scanned image is in overlapping sections.)
The clipping was part of series of at least 14 extracts taken from Winfield's history and credited in the title as "Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken." This one is probably the thirteenth. They were all published in published in January and dated by the collectors, Matthias H. and May Georgia Taylor of 525 Garden St., in pencil or ink.
This source text was: Hopoghan Hackingh. Hoboken, A Pleasure Resort for Old New York. This work was an 80-page history of the city written by Charles H. Winfield and published by Caxton Press, New York in 1895. See library catalog 2004.056.0001 for the original source.
The article may be considered as promotion for the volume.
2012.029.0013
2012.029
Taylor, Leonard J.
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Gift of Leonard J. Taylor
1896 - 1896
Date(s) Created: 1896 Date(s): 1896
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Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2012-06-12