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Rare North Carolina newspaper printed on "necessity paper"...
Rare North Carolina newspaper printed on "necessity paper"...
Item # 701894
June 22, 1864
NORTH CAROLINA TIMES, New Berne, June 22, 1864 This is a Union occupation newspaper, as New Bern fell to the Yankee forces under General Burnside on March 14, 1862. This is the volume 1, number 44 issue. Our records indicate this is the first of this title we have offered from during the war.
The most intriguing aspect of this issue is not the content, but the paper upon which it is printed. The newsprint is a comparatively thick-stock, brownish-color newsprint, more like wrapping paper than typical newsprint. At various points in the war, regular newsprint was difficult to find, so publishers used whatever they could find to print the day's edition.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, wide margins, a portion of the front page is foxed, several folds with small holes at a few fold junctures, generally in nice condition.
Category: Confederate
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