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[ELOCUTION AND PUBLIC SPEAKING]. Putnam’s Exhibition! In El...

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[ELOCUTION AND PUBLIC SPEAKING]. Putnam?s Exhibition! In Elocution & Oratory. Buffalo: Daily Republic Steam Press, ca. 1850s. Pictorial letterpress broadside in one color on pink stock advertising an appearance by an traveling orator, bearing small wood-engraved images near top of Putnam on a short stage teaching elocution to five students imitating his stance with outstretched arms, and flanked by images of a male and female student in the act of oration, the venue, day, time, and ticket price penciled in. The professor?s thirteen-part program included a re-enactment titled ?Rum?s Maniac! Representing in real life that most horrid of all earthly horrors, Delirium Tremens. Deep and heart rending emotions.? 19 ? x 7 ??. Creases, small tears to edges, light soiling. Born in New York, Worthy Putnam (1811 - 1887) published The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory in 1874 and made his living as an attorney at law, judge, teacher, professor, real estate agent and orator.