The Mammoth cattle! Gen. G.B. McClellan and Garibaldi. : At the Western Exchange Hotel Yard, Fifteenth and Market Street, Philadelphia. The public are invited to call and examine the most extraordinary pair of cattle ever produced in this or any other conntry [sic]. Gen. McClellan took the first prize at four successive state fairs in four states, viz: Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, and is conceded to be the neatest and finest animal every before looked upon. The cattle will remain on exhibition during the present month. They will be slaughtered on or about the 1st of March, and their meat will be sold by A.R. Paul, at his stalls, Second Avenue, Western Market. The butchers selected to dress these cattle, are the following gentlemen: Jos. S. Lowry, Peter Riffert, Samuel S. Coggins, Wm. Myers. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Contributor	Western Exchange Hotel Yard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, former owner.
	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Title	The Mammoth cattle! Gen. G.B. McClellan and Garibaldi. : At the Western Exchange Hotel Yard, Fifteenth and Market Street, Philadelphia. The public are invited to call and examine the most extraordinary pair of cattle ever produced in this or any other conntry [sic]. Gen. McClellan took the first prize at four successive state fairs in four states, viz: Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, and is conceded to be the neatest and finest animal every before looked upon. The cattle will remain on exhibition during the present month. They will be slaughtered on or about the 1st of March, and their meat will be sold by A.R. Paul, at his stalls, Second Avenue, Western Market. The butchers selected to dress these cattle, are the following gentlemen: Jos. S. Lowry, Peter Riffert, Samuel S. Coggins, Wm. Myers.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : U.S. Steam Job Print, Ledger Buildings
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date	[between 1861 and 1865]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 61 x 48 cm.
Notes	The illustration shows a bull.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Coggins, Samuel S.
	Lowry, Joseph S.
	Myers, William.
	Paul, Abraham R.
	Riffert, Peter.
	Butchers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Cattle -- Exhibitions.
	Garibaldi (Bull)
	General McClellan (Bull)
Geographic subject	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
Printer	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, former owner.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| 2# Am 1861 Mammoth (6)5777.F.3b (McAllister)
Accession number	(6) 5777.F.3b (McAllister)