This 1620 Mexican imprint – once in the library of AAS member and prominent Mexican bibliographer Joaquin García Icazbalceta (1825-1894) – arrived at AAS just in time to cause a stir among the students in the 2024 History of the Book in America summer seminar on multilingual cultures of print. Printed well before there was…

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28.06.2025

New to AAS: Boston, Massachusetts, Papers addition, 1710 – Past is Present

Almanacs, pregnancy, and dodging fines are all contained in this one-page testimony to the Court of General Sessions of Massachusetts from 1710. Unmarried Ruth Copeland became pregnant with a child by a man named Samuel Hayden, who promised to marry her after finding out she was to have his child. Samuel subsequently rescinded his offer…

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01.07.2025

Adventures in Amateur Newspaper Cataloging: The Acorn – Past is Present

As I work through cataloging the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of amateur newspapers, I’m often amused by both the content of the material and the stories of the people who published them. The Acorn (Catalog Record), published in North Attleboro, MA, by Fannie Hamilton, delights on both accounts. Hamilton published the first issue of the…

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12.07.2025

New to AAS: 2 Issues of Roll Call (Washington, DC), 1864 – Past is Present

At least these two issues of the Roll Call newspaper from the Civil War were edited by “Three Ladies. Two of the War, and One of the Treasury Departments.” There is only one other known issue of this title, which may have begun in February 1864. It was apparently published during one of the many…

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New to AAS: Juan de Grijalva [Grixalva]. Historia del Glorioso San Guillermo Duque de Aquitania. Mexico: Juan de Alcaçar, 1620. – Past is Present

New to AAS: Boston, Massachusetts, Papers addition, 1710 – Past is Present

Adventures in Amateur Newspaper Cataloging: The Acorn – Past is Present

New to AAS: 2 Issues of Roll Call (Washington, DC), 1864 – Past is Present

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