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Fifty Years of Books
Putnam, George Haven | July 8, 1915 issue

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The year 1860 was for the United States one of general prosperity. The crops, both in the South and in the North, had been above the average and in most divisions of business there had been substantial recovery from the depression that followed the financial disasters of 1857. The publishing trade, which had suffered severely during the disasters of 1857 and in the years succeeding the panic, had fairly recovered its normal status and its hopefulness for the future. In 1860, as had been the case tar the preceding quarter of a century or more, Boston, Massachusetts might fairly be considered as the chief center of literary and of publishing activities, particularly in connection with the production of books by American authors.

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PUBLISHERS & publishing; BOOKS; AUTHORS, American; UNITED States -- Economic conditions; DEPRESSIONS; CIVIL war; UNITED States
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