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Museum purchase, 1979.96.3  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Alvin Jewett Johnson
Museum purchase, 1979.96.3 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Alvin Jewett Johnson

American, 1827 - 1884
BiographyAlvin Jewett Johnson was born in 1827. He began his career as a book canvasser in the mid-West. In 1856, he began his own publishing company in New York City, specializing inaps,atlases, and encyclopedias. Alvin died in 1884.
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