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It was the second work printed in the English colonies of America altogether (the first being The Oath of a Free-man, printed earlier in the same year). [1] The earliest New England almanac of which an extant copy survives in the Library of Congress [2] was published by Zechariah Brigden in Cambridge in 1659. [3]
The first almanac printed in the Thirteen Colonies of British America was William Pierce's 1639 An Almanac Calculated for New England. The almanac was the first in a series of such publications that Stephen Daye, or Day, printed each year until 1649 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [21]
A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings. On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin announced in The Pennsylvania Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [4]
Sauer's first almanac, printed 1739. Around 1735, Sauer took up the idea of becoming a printer and publisher. Benjamin Franklin dominated this trade at the time, and was a supplier of printed materials to the large German community around Pennsylvania. Significantly, Franklin used only Roman typefaces.
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal ...
The Old Farmer's Almanac. First printed in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas. ... But writer Brian Iven of Neoweather, who recently published an article on that topic in Snow Plow News, points out it is ...
In 2000, the editorial reins were passed to Janice Stillman, the first woman in the Almanac ' s history to hold the position, and she was succeeded, in 2023, by Carol Connare. [21] Carol is the 14th person to hold the title of editor since it was first published in 1792. [22] Hale still acts as the publication's editor in chief.
Early American publishers and printers. A typical printing press of the 18th century. Religious enthusiasm and the great demand for bibles and other religious works is largely what promoted the first printing efforts in the American colonies. Before and during the American Revolution colonial printers were also actively publishing newspapers ...