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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “ALL Persons indebted to CARNE & WILSON, are requested to discharge their respective Debts.” Apothecaries Carne and Wilson advertised widely when they dissolved...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Will sell by vendue … a nrat assortment of CABINET-WORK.” John Dobbins, a cabinetmaker, operated a shop on Tradd Street in Charleston in 1770. As the year...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “DOUBLE BEER, fine ALE, TABLE and SMALL BEER.” Robert Wells, the printer of the South-Carolina and American General Gazette, had too much news and advertising to include...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “AN ELEGY on the Reverend GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” Following the death of George Whitefield, one of the most influential ministers associated with the eighteenth-century...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “MRS. SWALLOW begs Leave to inform the Publick.” Newman Swallow and Mrs. Swallow, presumably husband and wife, both ran newspaper advertisements in late October and...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The newest and most fashionable Taste.” In the fall of 1770, John Brown, a hairdresser, informed “the Ladies in particular” and “the Gentlemen”...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He proposes teaching COTILLONS in the newest taste.” The South Carolina Newspapers collection available via Accessible Archives is an invaluable resource for producing...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Sundry other Articles, allowed to be imported by the Resolutions.” Several merchants and shopkeepers placed lengthy advertisements in the September 24, 1770, edition...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “JOHN HATFIELD, TALLOW-CHANDLER and SOAP-BOILER … CARRIES on the said Business as usual.” Among the three newspapers published in Charleston in 1770, readers...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Valuable pieces, professedly written in defence of the Liberties of Englishmen.” An advertisement for the March edition of “THE FREEHOLDER’s MAGAZINE; Or...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Any person inclinable to purchase the Whole, may have them on very reasonable Terms.” John Tunno sold a variety of goods at his “Linen and Manchester Ware-House”...
Who was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “RUN away … JACK is a Negro Man … TONY is a brown Indian Man.” The July 4, 1770, edition of the South-Carolina and American General Gazette include an advertisement...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “BOXES of MEDICINES made up, as usual, on the shortest Notice.” After the partnership of Carne and Wilson dissolved in 1770, apothecary Robert Carne placed an advertisement...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “May be had … till Capt. Schermerhorn’s Sloop sails.” The colophon for the South-Carolina and American General Gazette indicated that it was published by...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “It is impossible to carry on Business without Money.” Printers, like members of other occupations, frequently extended credit to their customers in early America. ...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Messrs. JOHN SKETCHLEY, & Co.” Robert Wells, the printer of the South-Carolina and American General Gazette, apparently experienced a disruption in his paper supply...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “He continues to follow the Business of an INSURANCE-BROKER.” Like many colonists who placed newspaper advertisements, John Benfield did not confine his notice in the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “For SPAIN, PORTUGAL, LONDON … The SHIP MARY.” Deciphering the copy in these advertisements may be difficult or even impossible, but the visual images remain...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “GEORGE COOKE, & Co. Have imported … [illegible].” The Adverts 250 Project and the Slavery Adverts 250 Project are made possible by databases of eighteenth-century...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? South-Carolina and American General Gazette (November 7, 1769). “Subscriptions and ADVERTISEMENTS for this Paper … are gratefully received.” Advertising accounted...
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