Childs, Benjamin F., 1814-1863, engraver

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. Last eight unnumbered pages and back wrapper contains printers' and publishers' advertisements.

Cover title. Page 4: "The astronomical calculations have been made in mean time, expressly for this almanac, by Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A.M., of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York." "Price, 20 cents." Includes: Acts of Congress (at the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, December 4, 1865-July 28, 1866), public resolutions, and proclamations, pages 27-35 ; The Civil Rights Bill "to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication," and the president's veto message March 27, 1866, pages 36-42 ; The Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the president's veto messages, pages 42-44 ; Address of the national Union Committee, pages 45-46 ; election returns for various elections 1860-1866 by state, county and congressional district., pages 49-71. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 73-104 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Cover title. Page 5: "The astronomical calculations have been made in mean time, expressly for this almanac, by Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A.M., of Dundee, Yates County, New York."
"Price, 20 cents."
Includes: Acts of Congress (at the second session of the thirty-eighth Congress, December 5, 1864-March 4, 1865) and proclamations, pages 29-37 ; Slaveholders' rebellion brief record of events, pages 38-42 ; The Union Party in 1865. resolutions ... on reconstruction and impartial suffrage, pages 43-46 ; Impartial suffrage, pages 46-48 ; President Lincoln's second inaugural address, page 49 ; President Johnson on the Negro question, pages 49-50 ; election returns for various elections 1860-1865 by state, county and congressional district, pages 53-72. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 73-96 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Title and imprint from front wrappers. "J.F. Cleveland, compiler"--Cover. "Price. Single copies, 13 cents...$1 per dozen...$7 per hundred"--Cover. Includes: political parties platforms for 1860, pages 30-34 ; South Carolina secedes from the Union, pages 35-37 ; election returns for various elections 1856-1860 by state, county and congressional district, and popular vote for president (containing New York State Negro Suffrage Referenda Returns, 1846 and 1860, by Election District, on the issue of Negro suffrage, with information on number of votes for, against, and total votes), pages 39-64. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 65-80 and back wrapper. Includes index.

Title and imprint from front wrappers. "J.F. Cleveland, compiler"--Cover. "Price. Single copies, 13 cents...$1 per dozen...$7 per hundred"--Cover. Includes articles on slavery: The foreign slave trade, pages 30-34 ; Kansas affairs, pages 34-35. In engraved and printed green wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc. Advertisements pages 65-80 and back wrapper. Includes index.

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 population in each state: pages 33-40."Foreign policy of the United States. The Webster and Hulsemann correspondence", pages 41-46. In engraved and printed blue wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc.
Back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements.Includes: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.Correspondence between Mr. Johann George Hülsemann, and Mr. Webster, and Mr Horace Greeley, 1811-1872. Why I am a Whig.

"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 wrapper contains publisher's advertisements.

"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 bill, in the Senate, July 25, 1846, pages [39]-42."Summary of the census of the United States, June 1, 1840" provides population data in each slaveholding state and non-slaveholding state on slaves and free population by race; "Progress of population" from 1790 to 1840 on slaves and free population by race; employment by occupation is categorized by regions, pages [53]-54.In engraved and printed blue wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc.Back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements.

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 Clay in the 1844 presidential elections, partly because of illegal ballots cast in New York City); Government of the United Sates (includes salaries); Tariff of duties; Henry Clay's speech on the subject of the Whig Party; Election returns from every state in the Union.
"Calculations by David Young, philom."--Page [1].
On cover: "The Whig Party", an extract from a letter signed by Henry Clay and dated Ashland, Sept. 13, 1842.
In engraved and printed blue wrapper, signed at foot of title: Childs sc.
Back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements.