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Excerpt from: "What Is It?" Advertisement This is what is termed the Nondescript, or WHAT IS IT? From the interior of Africa. It was captured by a party of adventurers who were in search of the gorilla. While exploring the river Gambia, near its mouth, they fell in with a race of beings never before discovered.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | "What Is It?" Advertisement | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | March 19, 1860 | |
| Format: | Advertisement | |
| Publication: | New York Herald | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Keywords: | Advertising; Africa; African American; Animals; Cognitive Disability; Economics; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Freak Show; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Leisure; Media; Museums; New York; New York City, NY; Phineas T. Barnum; Popular Culture; William Henry Johnson | |
| Topics: | n/a |
