Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and New York Accordion Book

These two illustrated works depict the Statue of Liberty arriving via ship from France to New York Harbor and it being fully constructed on Bedloe’s Island. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a popular weekly magazine that used woodcut and lithograph illustrations to visually depict newsworthy or historic events. The magazine’s titular publisher, Frank Leslie, was a pen name for Henry Carter, who immigrated to New York City from England in 1848.

Beyond its title New York, there are no publication details about the accordion book on display. Based on the buildings featured in the work, it appears to have been produced in the early 1890s, as the 1890 New-York World Building is present but Grant’s Tomb in Riverside Park is still a temporary structure and not the permanent monument that was completed in 1897. The “Bartholdi Statue of Liberty” is prominently displayed across the first two pages of the work.

Frank Leslie (1821-1880).
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House, 1885.

New York. Germany: N.P. [1890?].

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/asa/Record/10793228

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