Edgar Allen Poe
The celebrated poet and writer, Poe was the perpetrator of the Balloon Hoax, a false news story about a trans-Atlantic balloon flight. New York City was the hub of duplicity of this kind when P. T. Barnum arrived there in the mid 1830s.
- Date:
- 1850 circa 5 years
- Original Format:
- Photographic Print
- Item#:
- MES09396
- Height:
- 1492px
- Width:
- 1072px
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