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Creator Moore & Myers.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Steam-Power Job Printing Establishment, printer.
Title Gen. Hooker the mammoth ox : will arrive in Phila. Saturday, the 27th inst., to be on exhibition at [blank] General Hooker is ahead of the world for size and beauty. The general was bred in Ohio and fed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He weighs between 3700 & 3800 lbs. He is owned by the undersigned. Admittance, 20 cents. Ladies, free / Moore & Myers, owners.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Steam-power Job Printing Establishment, S.W. corner of Third and Chestnut Streets, Phialda
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [1861?]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 79 x 54 cm.
Notes Myers & Moore are listed in the 1860 Philadelphia directory; "Fighting Joe" Hooker was promoted Brigadier General at the outset of the Civil War.
Printed on yellow paper.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Cattle -- Exhibitions.
Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
General Hooker (Bull)
Oxen.
Genre Broadsides.
Printer Steam-Power Job Printing Establishment, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 2# Am 1861 Moore (1)1322.F.279 (McAllister)
Accession number (1)1322.F.279 (McAllister)

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