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Poster for "A Midnight Bell"
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Color lithograph poster. The banner at top reads "Hoyt's A Midnight Bell," below which is the tag "Laughter Every Minute." The image shows an white-haired man visiting a school classroom and motioning to a boy who is being led to him by a teacher grabbing his ear. Bottom cation reads "Visitng the School."
1889
Enquirer Job Printing Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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W013MP1
WHi 89937
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