Ayer's American Almanac 1907

Summary

Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.

Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.

Artifact

Almanac

Subject Date

1907

Creators

Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. 

W.J. Trombly (Firm) 

Place of Creation

United States, Massachusetts, Lowell 

United States, Vermont, Fairfax 

Creator Notes

Published by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts. Distributed by W.J. Trombly, Fairfax, Vermont.

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2017.0.30.3

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Yellow

Dimensions

Height: 7.75 in

Width: 5.125 in

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