Lyman Brown's Seven Barks Almanac, 1900

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Artifact Overview

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. In the late 1800s, drug and patent medicine companies published almanacs with colorfully illustrated covers to entice the public to buy their products.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Almanac

Date Made

1900

Subject Date

1900

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2012.0.15.3

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
String (Fiber product)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 6.25 in
Width: 4.5 in

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