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Grand leaping feat! : Professor Parsloe, makes his second daring leap! from the Girard Avenue Bridge, a distance of 60 feet, into the River Schuylkill! at half-past 4 o'clock, on Wednesday afternoon, July 31st, 1861.
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Creator
Parsloe, Professor.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
King & Baird, printer.
Title
Grand leaping feat! : Professor Parsloe, makes his second daring leap! from the Girard Avenue Bridge, a distance of 60 feet, into the River Schuylkill! at half-past 4 o'clock, on Wednesday afternoon, July 31st, 1861.
Publisher
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philada
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date
[1861]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 14 cm.
Notes
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject
Entertainment events -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stunt performers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Broadsides.
Playbills.
Printer
King & Baird, printer.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | PB 1861 Parsloe (1)1322.F.139 (McAllister)
Accession number
(1)1322.F.139 (McAllister)
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