Category: History - American

Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States

_Pioneer Imprints From Fifty States_ will enable readers to view the Library of Congress collections from an unaccustomed angle. It takes for its subject the Library's earliest examples of printing from within present-day boundaries of each State in the Union, providing for ea...

Chapters

8. Part 8

A Library of Congress bound volume contains an incomplete but substantial run of _The Dakotian_ from April 1, 1862, to December 17, 1864, without any marks of provenance. In add...

7. Part 7

The Law Library of the Library of Congress keeps in a small manila envelope a remarkable group of five very early examples of Utah printing, some of which must have been issued...

3. Part 3

Various owners inscribed their name in this book. Joseph Stiles, who operated the Vale Royal Plantation near Savannah from 1806 until his death in 1838, owned at least the latte...

5. Part 5

Joseph Charless, with a background of printing experience in his native Ireland, in Pennsylvania, and in Kentucky, became the first man to establish a printing press west of the...

4. Part 4

The earliest Tennessee imprint in the Library of Congress is probably the eight-page official publication entitled _Acts and Ordinances of the Governor and Judges, of the Territ...

2. Part 2

The Library of Congress copy, in a 19th-century morocco binding, contains no evidence of provenance, but it was undoubtedly in the Library's possession by 1878, for the title is...

1. Part 1

_Pioneer Imprints From Fifty States_ will enable readers to view the Library of Congress collections from an unaccustomed angle. It takes for its subject the Library's earliest...

6. Part 6

The Library of Congress copy shows that the general left something to be desired as a printer, some pages being so poorly inked as to be scarcely legible. This copy--one of but...

9. Part 9

Despite the absence of a bibliography or trustworthy history of early Alaskan printing, it seems safe to say that the earliest imprints were the orders issued by the Military Di...