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Title'The Possum'
DescriptionUndated (1887?) cutting from an [American] paper with an item headed 'The 'Possum' reprinted from the 'Chicago Herald', with an anecdote (or joke) in dialect about an old 'Negro' man buying an opossum. The reverse shows part of a story (obituary?) about an American [diplomat] in China and India.

Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: USA
Subject: Cartoon
Date[1887]
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM General Library
ExtentPress cutting
LevelItem

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CodePersonNameDatesSource
PX473Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist1823-1913 [Source: http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/index1.htm]
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