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New theatre. On Friday evening, December 16th, 1808, will be presented the celebrated comic opera of, The Siege of Belgrade ... To which will be added, the favorite melo-drame of The Blind Boy ... [New York 1808].

Parlor entertainments for the benefit of the Great Central fair at the Soldiers' reading room ... on Saturday evening, April 23, 1864 ... [Philadelphia, 1864].

Bromley & Co's publications. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville militia on the war ... New York [1864?].

Theatre. on Saturday evening, October 27th 1810, will be presented (Last time) a comedy in five acts, (now performing with great applause in London) called, High life in the City ... To which will be added, a celebrated farce, called Who's the d

Dr. J. Bovee Dods' imperial wine bitter, for sale at 649 & 651 Broadway, New York, by Charles Widdifield .... [1859].

[Playbill for] New Theatre, Friday evening, January 9th, 1807. [Delaware? 1807].

The algic magazine and annals of Indian affairs ... [Prospectus] New York, July 6th, 1841.

[Circular. New York 1857].

We take pleasure in announcing that there will be opened for exhibition, on Saturday morning, 20th inst. at the Art Rooms 817 Broadway, a collection of modern paintings by foreign and American artists ... New York November 18th, 1875.

New theatre. On Friday evening, December 16th, 1808, will be presented the celebrated comic opera of, The Siege of Belgrade ... To which will be added, the favorite melo-drame of The Blind Boy ... [New York 1808].

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1049 B 11 0 26 42.; Rec. R. B. 11-3-42.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.

Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 113, Folder 29b.

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Eggs at forty cents. Eggs are still one of the cheapest articles of food for sale in the public markets of Belgrade, the capital. They sell for forty cents a dozen. They are a trifle smaller than the eggs in America but are always fresh. Serbia is essentially a farming country

Tea room at Belgrade, Serbia, showing Miss Gladwin, A.R.C. nurse, Dr. Eastman and Dr. Jolly

Tid re i, or The marriage of Miss Kitty O'Donavan to Mr. Paddy O'Rafferty sung by Mr. Twaite at the New Theatre with undbounded applause

Young Serbia at Play. German prisoners in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, made a crude imitation of the American merry-go-round for the Serbian children who are enjoying their first play after an interruption of four years. The merry-go-round is made of ordinary lumber, a few strands of steel cables and four American Automobile wheels

Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphiadelphia

New Theatre, Geneva - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Young Serbia at Play. Thanks to the American Red Cross the children of Serbia are playing again. After feeding the Serbs the Americans provided playgrounds. They were built by the German prisoners in Belgrade. Here are the children using a real American swing for the first time

The favorite overture, to the grand historical melo-drama, called the Blind Boy : performed at Covent Garden Theatre

Serbian Boy Scout. This bright youngster of the Balkans belongs to the orphanage of Belgrade, the Serbian capital, one of the numerous institutions of its kind receiving the attention of the Junior Red Cross. The Serbian orphans have seen Americans almost since the first days of the war and have come to regard them as part of their lives. Most of the boys belong to the Boy Scouts, modeled on the lines of the American and English scouts

Children at American Red Cross Orphanage in Belgrade, Serbia. They have their cups in hand, awaiting the luncheon hour. Most of the garments are either secondhand American clothing or garments made up from cloth furnished from America. These children are all war orphans, of whom there are many thousand in every district of Serbia

A Serbian playground. One of the features of the American Red Cross work in Belgrade, Serbia's capital is a playground for the children of the orphanage maintained there partly through funds given by the Jr. Red Cross. Many American games have been introduced and every effort is being made to brighten the lives of the little ones which were stunted by hardships of war unknown to the children of the United States

Blind boy's schottisch - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

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