Only in 1857 did it occur to New Yorker Joseph Gayetti to cut neat squares of paper and packaged in
Only in 1857 did it occur to New Yorker Joseph Gayetti to cut neat squares of paper and packaged in bundles. Before him, starting in the early 1800s, people used any handy cheap paper – newspapers, catalogs, almanacs. And before that, well, I don’t want to think about it. -- source link
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