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The olden time series

gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, selected and arranged with brief comments

by Henry M. Brooks & Henry Henry Mason Brooks

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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No. 1. Curiosities of the old lottery. - 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

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Cryptozoology and Forteana.

  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Curiosities and wonders”. Retained metadata contains “Curiosities and wonders” in the subject metadata.

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gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, selected and arranged with brief comments

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1886Boston : Ticknor; TicknorEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL7303222W
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