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Old Colony Press [Vol. 1, No. 32 (April 30, 1873)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03766.45 Author/Creator: Place Written: North Bridgewater, Massachusetts Type: Newspaper Date: 30 April 1873 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy

One issue of The Old Colony Press dated April 30, 1873. Includes a full-page advertisement for P.T. Barnum's Circus.

Old Colony Press (North Bridgewater, Mass.), fl. 1873
Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Newspapers
Medical History
Medicine
Poetry
Advertising
Circus
The American Civil War

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