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January 1888 - June1888

Frank Leslie's Publishing House

Book

Title: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. [Vol. 25. no. 1 (January 1888) - Vol. 25. no. 6 (June, 1888)]

One bound volume of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly from January 1888 - June 1888. The bound literary magazine contains many short stories, illustrations, and poems. The contents cover many topics including love, family, battle, travel and immigration, comedy, biographical and historical pieces. Some sections are a chapter of a larger story that is broken up and published a chapter a month.

GLC09673

1 July 1865

Frank Leslie's Publishing House

Newspaper

Title: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper [Vol. XX, No. 509]

One issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper dated July 1, 1865. Periodical includes variety of illustrations regarding tenement house living, a steamboat landing in the Confederate Navy Yard in Richmond Virginia, the completion of Atlantic telegraph calbe at Glass, Elliot, and Co., among others. The main spread of the issue is focused on tenement houses in New York City which looks into the crowded living style of the impoverished families.

GLC09674

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