Old Photograph High Street Dalkeith Scotland

Old photograph of a water fountain, shops, horse and cart, houses and people on the High Street in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. Robert Aitken was a Philadelphia printer and the first to publish an English language Bible in the newly formed United States. He was born in 1734 in Dalkeith, Scotland. Starting in Philadelphia as a bookseller in 1769 and 1771, Aitken started publication of The Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775, continuing through 1776. He also printed copies of the New Testament in 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1781. He died in Philadelphia in 1802.



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