- Fig. 4. Image of a newsboy at New York’s Chatham Theatre. The text on his ticket name-checks the famous melodrama actor James Kirby, known for his exaggerated death scenes. From “The News-Boy in the Pit of the Chatham Theatre,” Rural Repository (Hudson, NY), May 23, 1846. Courtesy American Antiquarian Society.
"The News-Boy in the Pit of the Chatham Theatre"
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