INFORMATION CIRCULAR 16   
                                            (Revised 1957) 


                       THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                         CONSTITUENT SERVICES
               SERIAL & GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
 




                    The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland

                            May 17, 1837

The Sun, Baltimore, of Wednesday, May 17, 1837, is the first issue,
"Vol.I, No.l" of that newspaper.  It was published by A. S. Abell
& Co. The Library of Congress is frequently consulted about copies
of this issue which prove to be reprints. These have little
monetary value.

     The original and the reprints are readily distinguished from
each other by the paragraphs at the bottom of the second and
third columns on page one.  In the original they are as follows:

    The last paragraph in the second column begins "The Public
Hotels in New York..."
    The last paragraph in the third column begins "The Mayor of New
York . . ."

     In the reprints these two paragraphs are both in the third
column, "The Public Hotels in New York" being at the bottom; and
the last paragraph in the second column begins "It is thought
that the Proclamation of the President..."  One of the reprints
also bears the word "Facsimile," but usually they are without this
label. 







                            U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1957 
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