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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection
One of the 19th century's greatest orators, Wendell Phillips was a noted reformer who denounced slaveholding and capital punishment and advocated woman suffrage and prohibition, among other causes. In an apparently lighter vein, this flyer for his lecture "The Lost Arts" promised "an evening's entertainment bristling with wit and wisdom," as well as an "unexpected array of facts brought out, concerning the Arts, Sciences and Literature of thousands of years ago, showing conclusively, that there is 'Nothing New under the Sun.'"
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