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1.1Quarto Novelty Press, like the one used for printing the Meteor of the Alabama Insane Hospital. Its various parts are labelled with letters from A to M. From A Descriptive and Illustrated Pamphlet of the Novelty Job Printing Presses (Boston: Benjamin O. Woods and Company, 1875), p. 5.
3.1Front page of the first issue of the Retreat Gazette, dated August 1837. Source: Connecticut State Library.
4.1Proofs of the front page of the first issue of the Moon, dated 22 April 1883 and never published. Source: University of California, Los Angeles.
4.2Front page of the first issue of the Gartnavel Gazette, Or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, dated 1 June 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Original material held at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives, Glasgow.
4.3Second issue of the new series of the Gartnavel Gazette, or a Word from the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, dated 15 March 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Original material held at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives, Glasgow.
5.1Front page of the first issue of the Meteor. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.
7.1Front page of the first issue of Excelsior: or, Murray’s Royal Asylum Literary Gazette, dated January 1857. Source: University of Glasgow Library Research Annexe.
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