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Here's the text of an advertisement for what may have been the first
exhibition of automata in North America:
A New Entertainment
By Mess. L'Egalite.
The citizen Sans Culotte and Mr. Aristocrat, will have the honour
to exhibit their talents before the public, on Tuesday the 4th of this
month, and will continue so to do every evening when there is no play.
The exhibition which will not last above an hour, will begin at 8
o'clock precisely; at the Long Room under Mr. Poor's Young Ladies'
Academy, in Cherry Alley, between Third and Fourth streets, No. 9, near
the Synagogue and the sign of the White Lamb.
Entrance half a dollar.
These two AUTOMATA (the only ones which ever appeared on this
continent) exceed all that has been exhibited of this kind at Paris. If
they give satisfaction to the public, the views of the author, who
remains unknown, will be fully answered.
Citation:
/General Advertiser/ (Philadelphia), 5 March 1794.
Regards,
Wally
Walter R. Wheeler
Senior Architectural Historian
Hartgen Archeological Associates
 Humanities & Social Sciences Online 
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