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Contributor Doran, Andrew L., associated name.
Title Watchman's address on the return of Christmas, 1851.
Title Now Christmas dawns, the season dear
Title Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa. : s.n]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date [1851]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 48 x 30 cm
Notes Verse in fifty-six lines; first line: Now Christmas dawns, the season dear.
Caption title.
At head of title is a woodcut eagle with the banner: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
The poems is printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule.
At foot is a woodcut of a watchman on a snowy night, along with "Counting house almanac" for 1852, "Solar and lunar eclipses for the year, 1852," and "Regulations of the state house bell in case of fire."
Printed area, including arched ornamental border, measures 43.5 x 26.6 cm.
Library Company copy pasted to a 20th-century hand-painted sign advertising: Sermons by the Redemptorist preacher Rev. Andrew L. Doran, ...
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Christmas -- Poetry.
Fire alarms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Watchmen -- Pictorial works.
Watchmen -- Poetry.
Genre Broadside poems.
Broadsides.
Calendars -- 1852.
Poems -- 1851.
Relief prints.
Provenance Doran, Andrew L., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| #Am 1851 Watch 9521.F (Roughwood)
Accession number 9521.F (Roughwood)

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