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[TIGHT ROPE] PANORAMA OF NEW YORK CITY. FREE TIGHT ROPE ASCENSION. PEDANTO. Boston: Boston Job Print, ca. 1885. Double sided letterpress broadside on bright yellow stock embellished with two wood-engraved images, one depicting Pedanto on the rope strung between two buildings with a balance bar in hand, the other with a scene of the “Original Royal Marionettes” that filled out the show. Other acts presented include a ventriloquist, Prof. Andrews, and comics, singers, and lecturers. Text-only verso describes the panoramic display of Manhattan using “10,000 feet of moving canvas, the finest painting of New York ever put on canvas.” 29 × 10". Corner pinholes and a few old creases. See Jay’s Journal of Anomalies, page 181.