Ayer's American Almanac 1907
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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
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.
Collection Title
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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