Identifier: americancomicalm00bost (find matches)
Title: The American comic almanack for 1831 : with whims, scraps and oddities : calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42, long. 71, but will answer for all New England
Year: 1831 (1830s)
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Subjects: Almanacs, American
Publisher: Boston : Charles Ellms
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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