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Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection at Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1855

Type: Text

Year: 1855, 1855

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: Cover title. Below head of title: single copies, 12 1/2 cts...$1 per dozen...$7 per hundred. "Slavery legislation," pages 25-41, includes the speeches of William H. Seward and Josiah Quincy, and the texts of the fugitive slave law of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854, with a classification of the vote. In engraved and printed blue wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc.… more

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1852

Type: Text

Year: 1852, 1852

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver, Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: Cover title. "The astronomical calculations have been prepared exclusively for the Whig Almanac by Samuel H. Wright, Dundee, Yates Co., New York."--Page 1. Includes "Why I am a Whig: reply to an inquiring friend", pages 19-26, by Horace Greeley. "Population of the of the United States, from the census of 1850 and of 1840 " includes sex, color, free colored and slave… more

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1850.

Type: Text

Year: 1850, 1850

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver., Wright, Samuel Hart, 1825- calculator.

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: Contains: Astronomical calculations for the year 1850; Government of the United Sates, Executive and Judiciary; Senate of the United States; House of Representatives; President Taylor's inaugural address; Mileage of the 30th Congress; Members of the 30th Congress; Report on the Panama canal; Laws of the United States of America (passed in the 30th Congress); Election returns from every state… more

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1849

Type: Text

Year: 1849, 1849

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver, Young, David, 1781-1852

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: "Calculations for the year 1849 prepared expressly for the Whig almanac, by David Young, philom."--Page [1]."The election of 1848", pages 9-14."Europe in 1848", pages 15-21."The war with Mexico," page 44-50, concluded from The Whig almanac for 1847.In engraved and printed buff wrapper, with portrait of Zachary Taylor. Signed at foot of title: Childs sc.Back… more

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1845

Type: Text

Year: 1847, 1847

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver, Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877, Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852, Young, David, 1781-1852

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: "Calculations for the year 1847 prepared expressly for the Whig almanac, by David Young, philom."--Page [1].Includes "The war with Mexico," page [29]-37, with a map of the battle of Chapporal. Continues in The Whig almanac for 1849."Bingen by Hon. Mrs. Norton" poem, page [38]."Ad valorem duties", extract from a speech by Daniel Webster on the new tariff… more

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The Whig almanac and United States register for 1845

Type: Text

Year: 1845, 1845

Member of: Almanacs

Contributors: Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Young, David, 1781-1852

Publisher: Greeley & McElrath

Description: Contains: Population statistics from the Census of 1840 (including slaves and free population by race, disabled persons, employment by occupation, veterans receiving a military pension, illiteracy), revenue and expenditures (for year ending Sept. 30, 1844); Astronomical calculations for the year 1845; "Were the Whigs beaten by fraud?" (about the Democrat James Polk who defeated Henry… more

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