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Order Nr. 59170 A CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CARRIERS' ADDRESSES, 1720-1820. Geral McDonald,...

A CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CARRIERS' ADDRESSES, 1720-1820.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 170 pages. First edition. The newspaper carrier's address, a printed holiday greeting, was a unique early American poetic form. Each New Year's Day, newspaper carriers around America and Canada distributed printed verses to their customers in hope of a hefty tip. Often highly amusing and occasionally quite socially aware, these broadsides eulogized the dutiful carrier of the year gone by. For the first time, these..... READ MORE

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Table of Contents 

Foreword 
iv 
Introduction 
vii 
List of Illustrations 
xiii 
Arrangement and Acknowledgment 
xiv 
Symbols and Sources 
xv 
Carriers' Addresses 
1 
Canadian Carriers' Addresses 
133 
Bibliography 
143 



Indices 

Location Index 
146 
Newspaper Name Index 
153 
First Line Index 
159 
Name Index 
170