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Exceedingly rare 1880's broadside advertising the  appearance of Robert Ingersoll in his fierce speech concerning HELL ! and Whiskey !  He is joined in descent by the honorable W.T.Duncan of Ohio Humorist and Orator of the West.


The Broadside also states the lovely vocalist Ada Lynwood will perform the most popular ballads.



On October 30, 1880, Ingersoll was introduced as "the Great Agnostic" by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, before a political speech delivered to a large audience at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn,New York.

Robert Green Ingersoll ; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and oratorduring the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.



10 X 27 inches




ref: 3k archival trunk




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