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Brother Jonathan's almanac, for the year of our Lord 1847

Smith, Seth, Sower, Charles Gilbert, b. 1821 · 1846 · Philadelphia: : C.G. Sower, 84 North Third Street. · 17 pictures

An American farmer's almanac for 1847, compiled under the name Seth Smith and printed by Charles G. Sower in Philadelphia for household and agricultural readers. Each monthly page carries a small horizontal woodcut band showing seasonal labor, weather, and figures in landscape with the month's zodiac sign worked into the sky, printed in coarse black line above a wavy rule dash useful as headpieces, strip ornaments, and calendar marks.

Almanacs, American · Astronomy · Agriculture · Meteorology

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