Frank Leslie's Weekly
 Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, April 28, 1883 cover |
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| Editor | John Y. Foster |
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| Categories | literary and news |
| Publisher | Frank Leslie |
| First issue | 1852 |
| Final issue | 1922 |
| Country | United States |
Frank Leslie's Weekly, later often known in short as Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852 and continuing publication well into the 20th century. As implied by its name, it was published weekly, on Tuesdays. Its first editor was John Y. Foster. There were 30 copies of the first edition printed. By 1897, its circulation had grown to an estimated 65,000 copies.[1]
It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie and was continued after his death in 1880 by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie. The name, by then a well-established trademark, remained also after 1902, when it no longer had a connection with the Leslie family. It continued until 1922.[2]
Throughout its decades of existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports - first with woodcuts and Daguerreotypes, later with more advanced forms of photography - of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish-American War and the First World War.
It often took a strongly patriotic stance and frequently featured cover pictures of soldiers and heroic battle stories. It also gave extensive coverage to less martial events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, covered by San Francisco journalist John Bonner.
Among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, and Ellis Parker Butler. Several notable illustrators worked for the publication, including Albert Berghaus and Norman Rockwell, who created covers for the magazine in its latter years.
Surviving copies of the magazine at present fetch handsome prices as collectors' items and are considered to give a vivid picture of American life during the decades of its publication.
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A peace commissioner offers torn ("ventilated") blankets, an empty rifle case, and 50 sides of spoiled beef, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of 18 September 1873.
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"Fact and Fiction". Reproduction of painting by Norman Rockwell used as cover illustration for Leslie's illustrated weekly newspaper, of 11 January 1917
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An 1879 illustration from Leslie's Weekly depicting the Meeker Massacre in Colorado.
[edit] References
- ^ N.W. Ayer & Son, The American Newspaper Annual (New York, 1897) 1896: Journals of the Campaign).
- ^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 66. ISBN 086576008X
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- Coverage of the laying of the 1858 Atlantic Cable in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
- "At the Gate of Klondike" by John Bonner in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1858
- Covers of Leslie's Weekly
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- The San Francisco Earthquake in Leslie's Weekly
- Leslie's Weekly, Volume 133, Issue 3451. From Google books.
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