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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “SARAH DAWSON, the Widow of JOSEPH DAWSON, Gardener.” Compared to their male counterparts, relatively few female entrepreneurs placed advertisements promoting their...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “All the Patenteed Medicines, too many to be enumerated in an Advertisement.” Oliver Smith advertised a “compleat Assortment of the very best DRUGGS and MEDICINES”...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “To be sold one third Part cheaper than they can be purchased at any Place in Boston.” Abigail Davidson was one of several women in Boston who placed newspaper advertisements...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “They have Removed their PRINTING-OFFICE two Doors lower down Queen-Street.” Colonial printers adopted various strategies when it came to inserting advertisements...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Doctor’s Boxes … are carefully prepared.” Peter Roberts advertised “An Assortment of the best DRUGS and MEDICINES” as well as other medical...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “He can fix them as well as any Surgeon-Dentist who ever came from London.” Silversmith Paul Revere placed several advertisements in 1770, but not for his primary...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “American Manufacture.” Cyrus Baldwin divided his advertisement in the July 23, 1770, edition of the Boston-Gazette into two parts. The first part, much longer...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “The Coach-Making Business in all its Branches is carried on as usual.” Adino Paddock, a coachmaker in Boston, regularly placed newspaper advertisements in the late...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “JOHN GORE, jun. Opposite LIBERTY-TREE, Boston … North-American Manufactures.” In the late 1760s and early 1770s, John Gore, Jr., consistently associated his...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “New Philadelphia FLOUR.” “New Philadelphia FLOUR.” John Head’s advertisements in the Boston Evening-Post and the Boston-Gazette demonstrate the relationship...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A Copper-Plate PRINT, containing a View of Part of the Town of Boston in New-England, and British Ships of War landing their Troops in the Year 1768.” The simultaneous...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A small Assortment of English Goods.” The partnership of Smith and Atkinson placed an advertisement offering cash for “POT and PEARL ASH” in the April 9,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A PRINT, containing a Representation of the late horrid Massacre in King-street.” Only three weeks after the Boston Massacre colonial consumers could purchase engravings...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Large Marrowfats, early Charlston.” Susanna Renken and Abigail Davidson were the first in 1770. Spring was on the way. Newspaper advertisements for garden...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “George Spriggs, Gardener to JOHN HANCOCK, Esq.” As spring approached in 1770, the appropriately named George Spriggs took to the pages of the Boston-Gazette to...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “List of Commissioners and other Officers of the Revenue, WITH THEIR SALARIES!” In the third week of February 1770, many printers continued to advertise almanacs, hoping...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Imported from LONDON (before the Non-Importation Agreement took Place).” Cyrus Baldwin hoped for prosperity in the new year, greeting 1770 with an invitation for prospective...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Will engage to make any Piece of Work as compleat as can be imported.” In December 1769, Daniel MacNeill, a “Saddler and Cap-maker from DUBLIN,” turned...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Supplement to the Boston-Gazette (November 20, 1769). “TO BE SOLD BY Harbottle Dorr …” Harbottle Dorr is not a household name today, but Dorr remains well known...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Boston-Gazette (November 6, 1769). “This Work will be committed to the Press, when American Paper can be procured.” An advertisement for “A REPLY to Dr. Chandler’s...
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