(NATURAL HISTORY) Great American Mastodon Now Exhibiting at

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Great American Mastodon!! Now Exhibiting at the Hall. Letterpress broadside, 25 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches; minimal dampstaining and faint offsetting, a bit of edge wear, tape remnants along top edge; uncut. No place, circa 1845

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This broadside advertises a 20-foot-long mastodon skeleton which had been unearthed in Newburgh, NY, "imbedded in a marl pit, lying from 5 to 8 feet below the surface." It adds that "no animal living approaches this size," with the bones alone weighing 2,002 pounds. Its discovery was a landmark event in American paleontology. The broadside's location was left blank for use at each stop on its national tour, which began in November 1845. James Darrach is named as the presenter.