Price of admittance, Nine Pence.
Dec. 9, 1800.
Massachusetts Mercury.
We have before noticed the tastes of the people formerly for wax-work. In 1805 there was another curious collection in Salem.
WAX-WORK.
STREET and GROSE reſpectfully acquaint the Ladies and Gentlemen of Salem that there is now exhibiting at Waſhington Hall a new and elegant collection of well executed WAX FIGURES, (large as life,) conſiſting of the following characters, viz.
A ſtriking repreſentation of the late unfortunate
DUEL between
General Hamilton, and
Colonel Burr.
In this intereſting ſcene the General is repreſented
as ſupported by his Second, after receiving the
fatal wound, while the Second of Colonel
Burr urges him to retire from the field.
An excellent likeneſs of the
Marquis De La Fayette.
The Austere Father
Frowning upon his DAUGHTER, finding her
with her Gallant.
The handsome Coquette.