Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Columbian Centinel.

Barcode: 59026

Image Number: 59026.0001

Brief Description: This issue includes an opinion piece on the front page promoting the use of maps for education. It also includes an "Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned". The Act was approved on May 31, 1790. It emphasized ownership of the books, charts and maps that would involve copyright.  The Columbian Centinel was a Boston newspaper founded by Benjamin Russell. It was a semi-weekly publication aligned with the Federalist point of view. Russell sold the newspaper in 1828 to Joseph T. Adams and Thomas Hudson. In 1840 it merged with a number of Boston newspapers and eventually would become the Boston Herald.

Publisher: Russell, Benjamin

Date/Date Range: Jul 17th, 1790

Publishing Location: Boston

Language: English

Dimensions: 41 x 27 cm

LC Call Number: AN 24.B7 1790 C6

OCLC: 1506395144

Subjects: newspaper

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/59026.0001