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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Public Ledger Calendar For 1870

Public Ledger Calendar For 1870

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General ReferenceGeneral Antiques & CollectiblesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9354507255
ISBN13: 9789354507250
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into 1870 as it was planned, priced, and predicted. A year, captured on paper. The Public Ledger Calendar for 1870 is a nineteenth century calendar and facsimile reference calendar drawn from the world of newspaper publishing, where timekeeping met commerce, politics, and daily life. More than a simple datebook, it functions as a historical almanac reprint, gathering 1870 dates and holidays alongside practical reckonings that once mattered to households and offices alike. Its astronomical tables and moonphases anchor the year to the sky, while its arrangement reflects the rhythms of a Victorian era United States still reshaping itself in post-civil war America, with working weeks, observances, and seasonal turns set out at a glance. For readers of public ledger newspaper history, this is a vivid piece of working culture: the kind of annual people consulted, marked, and kept. For genealogy and family historians, it offers period-accurate context for diaries, letters, and courthouse records; for antique ephemera collectors, it is a window into print design and everyday reference habits. It also sits naturally within any Victorian almanacs collection or shelf of historical newspaper annuals, a handy companion for curators, educators, and lovers of original sources. As a surviving civic tool, it records how nineteenth-century Americans standardised time, trade, and information before mass-market calendars arrived. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for curious casual readers and classic-literature collectors.

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