The olden time series : gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts / selected and arranged with brief comments, by Henry M. Brooks

Author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898
Published: Boston : Ticknor and co., 1886.
Physical Description: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm

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Contents

no. 1. Curiosities of the old lotter -- no. 2. The days of the spinning-wheel in New England -- no. 3. New-England Sunday -- no. 4. Quaint and curious advertisements -- no. 5. Some strange and curious punishments -- no. 6. Literary curiosities.

Subject(s)

Lotteries
Spinning
Sunday
Punishment
Curiosa
Advertising—History
New England—Social life and customs

Source of Acquisition

Harrisburg copy: Gift and purchase of Alice Marshall; 1991.

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