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117:. The totality of these newspapers columns, which are an invaluable reference to historians of early American theater, were carefully collected and annotated by Thompson Westcott in 1868, with Durang's assistance. They were bound into six large scrapbooks, along with a multitude of illustrations and prints of actors and theaters of the era. These books are in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a digitized facsimile is available online.
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