ABSTRACT
Press, 1990), 152. The jumbled message of the multilayered posters was a popular subject for engravings in the period. See, for instance, “The Bill-Poster’s Dream,” 1862, Eno Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, New York Public Library (discussed in Henkin, City Reading, 69-72); an 1864 version, reproduced as plate 58 in Harry T. Peters, America on Stone (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1931); and another of 1871 in the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (mentioned in Young, Toadstool Millionaires, 119).
