Framed Frank's Illustrated Newspaper Clipping of a U.S. Steamer Arriving at Honolulu
Item Number: 205
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Enjoy this framed clipping from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, May 19, 1860. The clipping is of a print captioned: "The Arrival of the U.S. Steamer Conveying the Japanese Embassy at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands - From a Sketch by Daniel Winter." It is mounted in a double-sided wood fram so aricles on verso of clipping are visible.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, established in 1855, was the first successful pictorial newspaper in the United States. It had a circulation of 164,000 by 1860. Before immigrating to the U.S. in 1848, Frank Leslie worked 6 years in the engraving department at the London Illustrated News, which began in 1842 and would become the model for the commercial illustrated press in America. He also worked with Gleason's Pictorial in Boston and the Illustrated News in New York, as well as founded one monthly women's magazine and acquired another one.
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