Cherokee almanac, for the year of Our Lord .

Object Details

Notes: Calculated by Benjamin Greenleaf, <1856-1860>; Description based on: 1839; title from cover; Latest issue consulted: 1860; Title page vignette; Drake, M. Almanacs 9407 et al; Pilling, J.C. Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the N. Amer. Indians, 768-773; Schoolcraft, H.R. Indian tongues, 79, 84, 86; SCNHRB has the 1839 almanac only (39088011251675; Pilling no. 770); stamp on t.p.: Bureau of American Ethnology Library, 1893; accession no.: 25216; bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Preservation supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.; SCNHRB copy of the 1839 almanac has a later red leather binding with a gilt-tooled spine; faux marbled paper boards and endpapers; marbled edges; with approximately 100 blank leaves of filler paper bound in at end of volume; housed in a later archival paperboard box for preservation.