(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Playbill for Bunker Hill or The Death

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Playbill for "Bunker Hill, or The Death of General Warren." Letterpress broadside, 10 x 6 1/2 inches; disbound, edges uncut, toned, creased. [New York], 1806

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This patriotic play was staged to celebrate the anniversary of the British evacuation from New York in 1783. Also performed was the opera Inkle and Yarico. The location is not given, but was likely the Park Theatre, which was New York's main performance space at that time.