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Includes approx. 60 issues of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser; Maryland Journal & Baltimore Advertiser; Gazette of the United States; Massachusetts Centinel; Massachusetts Mercury; Columbian Centinel; Massachusetts Spy; New England Palladium; etc. Various sizes, most 4 pages.

Significant collection of early American newspapers, containing first hand source material on the political and social developments as our nation was in its formative state. The run of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser is especially crucial, most of the issues being from 1789, the first year of George Washington's presidency under the new Constitution. Complete listing available on request.