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The Burning of the Theatre

"The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia on the Night of the 26th December 1811, By which awful Calamity upwards of Seventy Five of its most valuable Citizens suddenly lost their lives, and many others, were much injured."
Lithograph produced in Philadelphia by B. Tanner in 1918.


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