Carriers' centennial New Year's address. January 1, 1876 [electronic resource].
- Published:
- [Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [1875]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations, portraits ; 49 x 31 cm
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- Related Titles:
- July 4th, 1776. Jan. 1, 1876
- Note:
- Generic carriers' address. See McDonald, G.D. "New Year's addresses of American newsboys" in Bookmen's holiday, 1943, p. 68-69, where he states that "after the Civil War several companies made a business of selling addresses to the carriers and to the general public. Original poems were still written in many communities, but a good share were printed in New York and distributed widely in identical versions."
At head, within illustration: July 4th, 1776. Jan. 1, 1876.
"Copyright, 1875."
Illustrated border includes portraits of the eighteen U.S. presidents, and "the Centennial Memorial Building, Philadelphia."
Printed in blue.
Text in two columns; printed area, including illustrated border, measures 44.8 x 26.5 cm.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Reproduction Note:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 13616).
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