Broadsides, printed at the shop of Joseph Wood, Wiscasset, Me., 1867-1874.

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Broadsides, printed at the shop of Joseph Wood, Wiscasset, Me., 1867-1874.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978299

These broadsides announce the events and opportunities of village life in Wiscasset and the nearby towns of Damariscotta, Dresden, Edgecomb, and Boothbay. Includes fairs, festivals, levees, and dramatic entertainments, exhibitions, lectures, goods for sale, notices, meetings, auctions, dances, fund raisers were organized and announced, sale of real estate through bankruptcy or death, he was employed by traveling dentists, physicians, photographers, clairvoyants, tightrope artists, and champion hoppers to advertise their skills.

4 flat boxes (476 items)

Maine Historical Society Library

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Wood, Joseph, 1842-1923

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Printer and publisher, of Wiscasset, Me.; publisher of Seaside Oracle and Wiscasset Herald; secretary of Maine Press Association; in 1894 became editor of Maine Coast Cottager. From the description of Broadsides, printed at the shop of Joseph Wood, Wiscasset, Me., 1867-1874. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978299 ...