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Frank Leslie's Publishing House Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper [Vol. XX, No. 509]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09674 Author/Creator: Frank Leslie's Publishing House Place Written: New York, N.Y. Type: Newspaper Date: 1 July 1865 Pagination: 1 newspaper 16 p. : Height: 40 cm, Width: 28.5 cm Order a Copy

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.

Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880

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