Barnum Lapham's Quarterly
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Having started a fruit-and-confectionary store and founded the weekly Herald of Freedom, P.T. Barnum at the age of twenty-five in 1835 purchased for $1,000 a slave named Joice Heth, whom he advertised for exhibition as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. Between 1842 and 1868, he ran the American Museum, attracting 38 million visitors to his various marvels
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Lapham's Quarterly Archive
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The World's Most Impressive Fakes, Forgeries, and Finds that Made History
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Barnum Lapham's Quarterly
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lapham's quarterly - First Edition - Magazines & Periodicals - AbeBooks
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Lapham's Quarterly: Swindle & Fraud by Lewis H. Lapham
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The California Lumber Merchant - August 1943 by 526 Media Group - Issuu
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Running Commentary 5/31/2021, by Derek Edwards, The Edwards Edition
Weekend Reading: Hugh Hefner's Pathos, Stuffed Animals, and Treating Chronic Pain
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