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New Year's offering of the carriers of the Reading gazette: January 1, 1861

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Year:
1861
Subject:
New Year > Poetry
Time > Poetry
Death in poetry
United States > Pennsylvania > Reading
Local ID:
HB36108
Extent:
1 broadside ; 41 x 24 cm.
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Abstract:
The old tells of old man's death, The new of baby's birth; last stanza asks tip for carrier.
Notes:
Printed in one and two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections.
At head of text: Two pictures.
Two poems of nine four-line stanzas each, with eight-line concluding stanza.
Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Shelved as: Reading gazette and general advertiser, 1861.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

Table of Contents

  • Two pictures:
  • Old:
  • New:
  • Morn was come, there hung a star:

Citation

"New Year's offering of the carriers of the Reading gazette: January 1, 1861 " (1861). Carriers' Addresses. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:50660/

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    Carriers' Addresses

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