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Confederate Reading Room 11th Street, one door above Main. All the city papers, all the Southern papers, and late Northern papers (and received by every flag of truce.) A complete file of the New York News is kept here, as a convenience to parties expecting "personals" from their friends in the North. They can also see from this file if their "personals" in the Richmond papers have been copied into the News. ..
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Confederate Reading Room 11th Street, one door above Main. [electronic resource] : All the city papers, all the Southern papers, and late Northern papers (and received by every flag of truce.) A complete file of the New York News is kept here, as a convenience to parties expecting "personals" from their friends in the North. They can also see from this file if their "personals" in the Richmond papers have been copied into the News. ...
Published
[Richmond : s.n., 1863?]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 14 x 8 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Admission (good for all day) 50 cents. ... Note: To make the Confederate Reading Room a place of daily resort to the business men, clerks, and all classes who like to read every morning all the different city papers, 20 tickets (each ticket good, at any time whatever, for a whole day) will be sold for $5; 50 tickets, $10."
The American Antiquarian Society copy is dated 1863 in ms.
Printed area measures 10.9 x 6.6 cm.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 11424).
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2008
References
Parrish, T.M. Confederate imprints, 5285
Subjects
Genre/Form
Broadsides.
Also listed under
United States Virginia Richmond.
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