Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, ...1778 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, ...1778, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, ...1778
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This woodcut comes from Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for 1778, a small annual that combined a calendar, astronomical tables, and weather forecasts with woodcut illustrations and occasional wit. The record does not name the scene, so its exact subject is uncertain. Still, the image shows how printers in Revolutionary-era Boston used cheap block prints to make a utilitarian pamphlet more appealing to readers. Almanacs were among the most widely read printed works in colonial and wartime America, often kept in homes for decades, and their illustrations were usually carved from wood blocks that printers reused across editions.
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1778 |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, ...1778. Reference copy may be in Pres. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Boston--Misc.; BI; Pres. I.; Rare Bk. Div.; Almanacs; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 979 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133670 |
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