Cattle show, and exhibition of domestic manufactures at Pawtuxet, R.I., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 1844. The standing committee of the Rhode-Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, offer the following premiums...
Providence: Knowles & Vose, printers, [1844]. Large folio broadside (approx. 24" x 19¾"), text in quadruple column under the running head, the whole within a Greek key border; previous folds with some wear; very good and attractive. The text is divided into categories: grain, vegetable crops, and agricultural experiments; stock (bulls, calves, cows, heifers, working oxen, steers, sheep, hogs, poultry, teams); butter and cheese; shop manufactures; mill manufactures; and, household manufactures. Signed in type at the end of the last column, John Pitman, president; and C. S. Rhodes, secretary. OCLC locates a 4-page octavo bifolium printed on blue paper with nearly the same title at Brown, but not this broadside. Not in American Imprints; not in Sabin. Item #55318
Price: $950.00
