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Excerpt from: Zip Grins In Death, Mask Off At Last Zip was buried in Bound Brook, N. J., not because he has “passed his vacations on the farm he owned” as was generally thought by the public he fooled, but because he was born there -- not in “the wilds of South Africa.” Even the birthday was part of Zip’s joke, for he was born in 1857, though he was supposed to have been “over eighty.”... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Zip Grins In Death, Mask Off At Last | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | April 29, 1926 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | New York World | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | p.17 | |
| Keywords: | Africa; African-American; Circus; Cognitive Disability; Death; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Family; Freak Show; Humor; Identity; Labor; MASS MEDIA, CULTURE & THE ARTS; Media; Museums; New Jersey; Phineas T. Barnum; Popular Culture; William Henry Johnson |
