Eagle City Tribune (AK, 1898)

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Eagle City Tribune (AK, 1898)

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Eagle City, Alaska (1898)

Frequency:  Weekly

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 6, Oct. 8, 1898; only a few issues published

Size and Format:  8 x 10 inches; two pages; pen and ink

Editor/Publisher:  Charles C. Carruthers, editor; F.L. Lowell, assistant

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

According to the McLean, the Tribune was an independent newspaper that provided community news and editorials on the differences between Canadian and American mining laws, customs and tariffs.  The Tribune’s motto was “He that runs may read.”  No price appears.

The Oct. 8, 1898 issue includes five advertisements and criticisms of Canadian officials and “their coadjutors, the B.C. press.”  The paper was clearly unhappy with Canadian treatment of Americans in the eastern Alaska/Yukon mining region.  Tribune editor Carruthers displayed a tendency to editorialize in almost every article.  At the same time, he also records the names of many of the early arrivals in the country, pictures the difficulties between Canadians and Americans, and indicates the difficulties and dissatisfactions between labor and management.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Dora E. McLean, Early Newspapers on the Upper Yukon Watershed:  1894-1907, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Alaska, 1963, 38-43; James Wickersham, A Bibliography of Alaska Literature, 1724-1924 (Cordova, Ak.:  Cordova Daily Times Print, 1927), 258; Melody Webb, Yukon: The Last Frontier (University of British Columbia Press/University of Nebraska Press, 1985/1993), p. 137; John McPhee, Coming into the Country (Bantam Books, 1979), p. 340.

Link: Melody Webb, Yukon: The Last Frontier (University of British Columbia Press/University of Nebraska Press, 1985-1993), p. 137

Locations:  Oct. 8, 1898: AKHisLib-Juneau; photocopy reprint in McLean (1963), 42-43

Domestic Quarterly Review (IA, 1844)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Washington, Iowa; Sigourney, Iowa (1844)

Frequency:  Quarterly?

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1, 1844; at least three issues

Size and Format:  Four pages, 13″x21″; three columns per page

Editor/Publisher:  S.A. James

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

According to Littler, the first issue of the Domestic Quarterly Review was “without doubt the first document published in the county that at all approximated in dignity of appearance, manner and matter of regular newspaper issue.”  Littler says the Review was a “12 column sheet, 3 wide columns to the page, and the pages were in size 13 by 21 inches” and “contained “probably as much matter in it as are found in regularly printed newspaper sheets of the same size.”

James described the Review as “a complete family, Young Lady or Gentleman’s newspaper” devoted “to Literature, Amusement and Particular Intelligence.”  The Review was “written and published at the low price of $1.00 a year, invariably in advance, and will be mailed to subscribers so as to reach them on the first day of each quarter in any part of the United States.”  James included a request that “Editors will confer a favor by giving the above notice (with this notice) an insertion.”

The editor of another local handwritten paper, the Quarterly Visitor, notes in that publication’s summer 1844 issue that “the printing office, publishing the ‘Quarterly Review,’ has removed to Sigourney in Keokuk Co.”  The Keokuk County History of 1880, which made liberal use of interviews with James, says that he issued three numbers of his handwritten newspaper.  The county history also notes that James lived in a small log cabin with his family for sometime after his move, so it seems doubtful that the “printing office” involved much more than the writing skills of James and perhaps his wife, Sarah.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Nathan Littler, History of Washington County, (Iowa), 1835-1875, ed. by Edna Jones (Washington, Iowa:  Jonathan Clark, 1977), 221-222; The History of Keokuk County, Iowa (Des Moines:  Union Historical Company, 1880), 459-460; Roy Alden Atwood, “Handwritten Newspapers on the Iowa Frontier, 1844-1854,” Journalism History, 7:2 (Summer 1980), 56-59, 66-67.

Locations:  No extant issues located, but quoted in Littler (1977).

The Dew Drop (RI, 1861-1862)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Providence, Rhode Island

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data: May 18, 1861 to December 27, 1862

Size and Format: 65 pages long, on 40 leaves

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Published from May 18, 1861 to December 27, 1862.  It is 65 pages long, on 40 leaves.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  The Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

The Delhi Independent (OH, 1869)

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Delhi Independent (OH, 1869)

The Daily Tri-Weekly Pharmacist (MI, 1883-1884)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Michigan

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1883-1884

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Blueprint.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Bentley Historical Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Daily Marine Bulletin (HI, 1870-1882)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Honolulu, Hawai’i

Frequency:  Title says “daily” but actual frequency unknown; first printed editions were daily except Sundays

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol.  1, No. 1,  1870-1882 (year of first printed edition)

Size and Format:  Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Henry M. Whitney, J. W. Robertson

Title Changes and Continuation: The Daily Bulletin (1882-1895), Evening Bulletin  (1895-1912)

General Description and Notes:

According the University of Hawai’i,  the Daily Marine Bulletin edited by Henry M. Whitney began in 1870.  He started the paper after he was forced to sell the Pacific Commercial Advertiser–the forerunner of the Honolulu Advertiser–amid criticism for his condemnation of the government’s role in importing labor from Asia. Soon after the sale, Whitney began posting this hand-written, single-sheet daily news sheet, the Daily Marine Bulletin, from his stationary and book business.

According to the university, the Daily Marine Bulletin included news and information on ship arrivals and mail dispatches but was reviled by the Advertiser’s  editors as a gossip sheet“The title of ‘Marine’ Bulletin appears to us a misnomer, seeing that gossip and criticism is [sic] freely and rather recklessly indulged in, as to matters that are not the least marine in their nature.” The two papers apparently maintained a long rivalry.

The university also notes that “in 1878, James W. Robertson bought Whitney’s firm and continued publishing Whitney’s daily under various titles including the Daily Commercial Bulletin and J.W. Robertson’s Daily Bulletin. Although the lack of any holdings for this period make it difficult to find accurate information about the paper’s form and content, the first printed edition of the Daily Bulletin, launched on February 1, 1882, suggests that the new paper was a continuation of the hand-written sheet Robertson had taken over from Whitney five years earlier: ‘With this issue commences a new edition of our mornings [sic] Bulletin. After this it will appear in printed form, and will be delivered every morning free […] and if it is received as well as our written ones were, we will be satisfied.’”

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  University of Hawai’i at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI (printed editions only)

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/

The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (OK, 1870-1875)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Tullahassee Manual Labor School, Creek Nation, Wagoner County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) (1870-1875)

Frequency:  Monthly

Volume and Issue Data:  The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 1870-Vol. 1, No. 5, April 27, 1871); Our Monthly (Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 1873-Vol. 4, No. 10, Oct. 1875); may have run as late as 1876

Size and Format:  Two columns, published in both Creek and English languages

Editor/Publisher:  William S. Robertson and Ann Augusta Robertson (1870-1875)

Title Changes and Continuation:  The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (1870-1871); Our Monthly (1873-1875?)

General Description and Notes:

The first volume (1870-1872) of the small, two-column monthly appeared only in manuscript.  Later issues were printed on a hand press donated by Creek National Council.

The Rev. William S. Roberston, a Presbyterian missionary associated with the Tullahassee school since 1850, assisted by his daughter Ann Augusta, edited contributions mostly from Creek student exercises.  The purpose of the paper was “the moral and intellectual improvement” of the students, and to “give the Creeks parts of the Bible and religious songs in their own language.”  In addition to student work, the Robertsons solicited writings from any Creeks who were interested in the school or its publications.  The monthly’s manuscript editions were received so well by the community that the Creek National Council provided funds to purchase a printing press and appropriated $100 annually to cover printing 1,000 copies per issue a year.  Copies were distributed free in the Creek Nation.  Our Monthly first appeared in print in Jan. 1873.

The paper was published in both Creek and English, with many issues almost entirely in Creek.  Ann Eliza Robertson translated some articles, scripture passages and hymns into Creek while others were written by Creeks.

In addition to general news about the Creek nation and education matters, the paper also published political commentary.  For example, an 1875 Creek letter called for the repeal of the Treaty of 1866, which gave railroads a claim to Indian land.  Local advertising and local news also appeared.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Althea Bass, The Story of Tullahassee (Oklahoma City:  Semco Color Press, 1960); Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907 (Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1936);  James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages (Washington, D.C.:  Government Printing Office, 1889); James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy, Let My People Know:  American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978 (Norman:  University, 1981), 59; David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins,  American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 1984), 293-296.

Locations:  Danky and Hady; OkMu; OkTu; ULS

Cool Spring Pen (NC, 1878-?)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Cool Spring, Iredell, North Carolina

Frequency: Unknown; published “every once in a while.”

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 8, 1878)-18??

Size and Format:  Pen and ink journal

Editor/Publisher:  E. Walter McIver

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

“Published at the Cool Spring Academy in [sic] behalf of the Cool Spring Debating Society and education generally.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99061547/

Locations: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC

Cobwebs (IL, 1862)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Monticello College, Godfrey, Illinois

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1862

Size and Format:  14 pages

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation:  Perhaps formerly known as “La Mignionette“, 1840, also a publication of Monticello College.

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography:

Locations:  Monticello College Records, Box 9, Manuscripts, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL

The Club (UT, 1872)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Lehi City, Utah

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. 1 No. 2,  December 13, 1872

Size and Format:  16”x25”:  four lined sheets of 8”x12.5” pasted together (4×6 piece posted in the lower right corner front.  4 columns written on both sides

Editor/Publisher:  The Thurmond brohers of J.E. Ross

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description & Notes:

“Devoted to choice literature and amusements.”

[Page 1] Reminiscences:  [Editorial Policy] “In our last number we published a short editorial setting fourth [sic] the great and fundamental principasl upon which this paper is based.  Our object as the great and universal good of mankind, the total abolishment of every prinicple that is opposed to justice, truth and honor; to train the immortal mind of man that he may walk in paths of purity.  These are the great purposes for which we devote our labors, our time and our money

“Our motto is perserverence, unceasing diligence will achieve great results and though we stand lone in thes arduous struggle for reformation, still our columns will flooded with immortal principals [sic] and precepts that will discern as a legacy to succeeding generations, . . . “

Conatins:  poetry, local and other matters, letter to the editor, thank you “to the girls that prepared our room for the meeting last Wednesdayevening and also this evening.”

According to Hamilton Gardner, (224) Lehi YMMIA was founded in 1875. Primary association was established in 1878.  (418) John E. Ross came to Lehi in 1840, taught school for 29 years and secondary school for 25 years.

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  Hamilton Gardner, History of Lehi, SLC, The Deseret News, 1913.

Locations: Mormon Church Archives, Salt Lake City, UT

The Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)

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Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)

[Post updated August 17, 2011; thanks to Andrew Tucker for information about Fort Laramie’s Commanding Officer William Scott Ketchum]

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Fort Laramie, Wyoming; “office under the hill, but still within hearing of the Juvenile Infirmary, when the wind is favorable” (November 1849, Vol. 1, No. 4)

Volume and Issue Data:  October-December, 1849; “will appear occasionally, and sometimes oftener, if not sooner” (Oct. 1849, Vol. 1, No. 2)

Size and Format:  7.75 x 11.5 inches, two columns, with cursive writing and ink illustration with captions

Editor/Publisher:  “The Quartette”

Title Changes and Continuations:  None

General Description and Notes:

The editors describe the paper as “the largest paper printed at Fort Laramie.” .

According to Andrew Tucker (see bibliography below), William Scott Ketchum, one of the names mentioned in the Journal, was an officer of the 6th Infantry stationed at Fort Gibson and later Fort Laramie. He was the commander at Fort Laramie when the Journal was published.

In the October 1849 issue (Vol. 1, No. 2), a joke mentions Ketchum: “Why is the Commander of the Infantry Company at this Post a terror to evil-doers? ‘Cause he Ketch-um.”

Chugg Water Journal (WY, 1849)

Tucker reports that Ketchum was a West Point grad and served as an Army officer in the Second Seminole War, and had frontier duty at Fort Gibson and Fort Laramie. He went on to become a brigadier general by the end of the Civil War. After he retired, he was allegedly poisoned by Elizabeth Wharton, the widow of one his fellow officers. The trial afterward gained international attention. Wharton was apparently acquitted.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: Michael L. Tate, The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), pp. 264-265; thanks to Andrew Tucker, a relative of William Scott Ketchum, for the citation of the Tate book and the background information about Ketchum (via email exchanges with the HNP editor, August 16-17, 2011)

Links:  Michael L. Tate, The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001)pp. 264-265; Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Locations:  Wyoming Department of Commerce, Division of Parks and Cultural Resources, Historical Research and Publications Unit, Cheyenne, WY (microfilmed)

Chinese News (NY, 1894-?)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  New York, NY

Frequency: Unknown, but multiple copies produced

Volume and Issue Data:  1894, perhaps longer

Size and Format:  Pen and ink, hand lettered Chinese characters

Editor/Publisher:  William J. Hanley & Steve Linguard

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

According to the Library of  Congress, the description based on: No. 8 (Aug. 10, 1894). Red background with hand lettered in Chinese

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2004060426/

Locations:  New York State Rgn, Albany, NY

Cheviot Solitare (OH, 1868)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Cheviot, Ohio  “Coverts New Building West Side of Main Street above the Post Office”

Frequency:  Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol 1, no. 1, Jan. 22, 1868.

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  White and White, Editors and proprietors

Title Changes and Continuation:  None

General Description and Notes:

“Green Township Right or Wrong”  “Independent in Politics, and religion.

Information Sources:        

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Alfred Kleine-Kreutzmann, Curator of Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, 800 Vine Street-Library Square, Cincinnati, OH

Cheviot Privateer (OH, 1862)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Cheviot, Ohio.  “To be had at the Publishing House, No. 10, Mud Avenue, or at the News Report”

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. I, No. X, March 24, 1862

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Aaron Flaxey, Commander, and Hiram Flipper, Purser.

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

“Free speech, free press, and free toleration in religion.”

“Devoted to both sides of the Political hemisphere and the general news of Green Township.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH

Cheviot Gem (OH, 1862)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  No. 9, Promenade, Cheviot,  Ohio

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol. I, no. VIII,Jan. 30, 1862

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Crowfoot & Co.

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

“Devoted to all things generally proper to appear in print for the instruction and amusement of the public especially Chevilonians.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations: Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH

Cheviot Coquette (OH, 1859)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Cheviot, Ohio; “Published (indiscriminately) on the NW corner of Sprat & Musty Streets”

Frequency:

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol 1, No. 4, Sept. 7, 1859, and No. 7, Oct. 3, 1859.

Size and Format:

Editor/Publisher:  “Sans & Souci”, anonymous writers who say of themselves: “Now my friends there is such persons as the above they have and bare a partial resemblance to old grand father Adam.  And they are men too who take pleasure in walking your streets, . . .  First we see a Mr. A—, painted out as the bonified Editor, next comes Mr. B—.”

Title Changes and Continuation:  Unknown

General Description and Notes:

“Devoted to the scattering news and gossip of the town and country.  Liberal in religion and politics.  Always open for conviction.”

“Tell All We Know.”

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Rare Books & Special Collections, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH

The Chapel News (GA, 1883-1903)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Broad, Georgia

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  Only one existing hand-written copy; 1883-1903?

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher:  Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: 1883-1903

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Framed and hanging in the publisher’s office of The Millen News, Millen, GA

Information obtained from Jay Evatt, Main Library, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Chalacha Pioneer (OR, 1855)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Chalacha, Washington Territory (Oregon), (1855)

Frequency:  At least two issues

Volume and Issue Data:  July 1 and 7, 1855

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

None

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Locations:  Oregon State Historical Society

The Casket (NE, 1875)

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The Casket (NE, 1875)

Publication History:

Place of Publication:  Prospect Hill School (District 75), Waverly, Lancaster County, Nebraska

Volume and Issue Data:  Vol.1, No. 1, Jan. 22, 1875

Vol. 1, No. 2, Feb. 19, 1875

Vol. 1, No. 3, March 19, 1875

Size and Format:  Ledger paper, 7.75 x 12 inches; pen and ink; 2 cols.

Editor/Publisher:  Students, including Charles A. Pierce

Title Changes and Continuations:  See THE EXPERIMENT and WILLOW CREEK JOURNAL may have been precursors to The Casket

General Description & Notes:

The Casket contains short news items, editorials anecdotes and student “compositions.”  The weather apparently was of concern in all three extant numbers because of a bitter cold spell.

The editorial in the first number explains the circumstances of the new publication:

We come into your presence this afternoon, to make our first bow, in the editorial line, and hope that you will take our paper.  When it was announced, a couple of weeks ago, that “our school” was to have a paper, many were the disheartening exclamations, and hints that it would be a second rate sort of thing, if it did come out.

The Casket (NE, 1875)

We were not discouraged, however, for we had confidence in our contributors; but we were surprised by the number of articles which came pouring in.  Instead of our first number being a four or eight page paper, as we expected; we are enabled to issue a first class sixteen-page one, which we know exceeds the expectations of any of us.  Our motto is “Excelisor,” as you may see, and we will try to improve with every number, instead of retrograding, as some papers do.  As a last word, we ask you to keep on supporting use, as you did have this time, and we will soon be able to challenge any paper of this kind in the state, to excel us.

One of the student editors, Charles A. Pierce, was the son of Charles W. Pierce, a civil war veteran, who was transferred to Demopolis, Alabama in 1866 as a major with the Freedman’s Bureau and District commander of western Alabama.  The senior Pierce served one term in the 41st Congress from Alabama’s fourth district in 1867.  I was during this time that his son, Charles A., began his first handwritten newspaper, THE EXPERIMENT, at Oakland Hall, Chunchula, Alabama.  In 1872 the family moved to Waverly, Nebraska, where THE EXPERIMENT, and its successor, WILLOW CREEK JOURNAL were published by Charles A in 1873.  THE CASKET appeared in Nebraska in 1875 as a school effort, no doubt with the help of Charles A.

The Casket (NE, 1875)

Information Sources:

Bibliography:  None

Locations:  Nebraska State Historical Society, State Archives, Lincoln, NB, Charles Pierce papers, Ms. 554

The Casket (MA, 1857)

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Publication History:

Place of Publication: Boylston, Massachusetts

Frequency: Unknown

Volume and Issue Data:  1857

Size and Format: Unknown

Editor/Publisher: Unknown

Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown

General Description and Notes:

Amateur Newspaper, written with pen or pencil.

Information Sources:

Bibliography: None

Link: The American Antiquarian Society, Amateur Newspapers Collection

Locations:   American Antiquarian Society, Worcester,  MA

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