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Alabama Illustrated Engravings from 19th Century Newspapers
The Milwaukee Journal an Informal Chronicle of Its First 100 Years
Original Bound Volume: The Illustrated News:1853
From the seller: "The Illustrated News from January 1 through December 24, 1853, profusely illustrated with full page and in-text black and white wood engravings, marbled endpapers, 416pp, index to drawings, 16 x 12 inches, marbled edges, half leather with decorative gilt-lettered spine (hardbound). Wear to cover extremities exposing tips of boards, spine is worn and rubbed with a few areas of 1/4 to 1/2 inch leather loss, front joint is split at upper edge and there is a small area of leather loss at the ends of the joints, interior hinges have been reinforced, but in general the interior is in very good tight condition with occasional light soiling and faint scattered foxing. A particularly fascinating volume, being volumes I and II of the Illustrated News, which merged in November 1853 with Gleason's Pictorial. The November 26, 1853, issue contains a Publisher's Notice under the masthead notifying readers that the "Illustrated News" had merged with "Gleason's Pictorial" of Boston, who, in an interesting sidenote, list P. T. Barnum as a Special Partner. Hence the remaining issues in the bound volume are "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion". This is full of fascinating wood engravings depicting many aspects of American life of the time and international events, including two gorgeous double page illustration "Bird's Eye View of the Crystal Palace, At New York" and "Inauguration Ceremonies of the Crystal Palace - View Under the Grand Dome", plus an interesting map: Japan with the Neighbouring and Allied States according to an Original Japanese Map. Other unusual views include: Present State of the Capitol at Washington (showing the Capitol still under construction), Bird's Eye View of Washington from the Capitol, Bird's-Eye View of the Crystal Park, at New York (with extensive article). The quality of the wood engravings is mixed, with many of the rather coarse work typical of the early American illustrated newspapers, but also including some particularly fine pieces signed in the image as having been engraved by Frank Leslie (an alias for Henry Carter who had engraved for The Illustrated London News and went on to found his own illustrated newspaper in 1855). The volume has a title page for the half year January to June, but lacks a title page for the July to December period (possibly never printed). Altogether a particularly interesting volume from the early days of American illustrated newspapers."Original Bound Volume: Deseret News, Volume XI: 1861
From the seller: "Contemporary 3/4 leather over pebbled boards with gilt bands and title on backstrip. Extremities rubbed. Corners rubbed through. Internally clean. Complete in 53 issues. The Deseret News is Utah's oldest continually published newspaper. Early issues like these are a window to the past, and are a lasting record of the early settlement of the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding areas. These issues cover the struggles as well as the mundane routine of the Mormon settlers." A paper that is worth printing is worth preserving; if worth preserving, it is worth binding; for this purpose we issue in pamphlet form; and if every subscriber shall preserve each copy of the 'News' and bind it at the close of the volume, their children's children may read the doings of their fathers, which otherwise might have been forgotten; ages to come."History of the National Amateur Press Association
5200 Thursdays in the Wallowas: A Centennial History of The Wallowa County Chieftain
The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American RepublicSearch for an old issue of The Agricultural Gazette Of New South Wales.
Original 1837-1838 Newspapers: El Liberal: Bound Volume of Newspapers From Caracas, Venezuela; 1837-1838
A Checklist of Pennsylvania Newspapers, Vol. I: Philadelphia County
A Checklist of Pennsylvania Newspapers Available In and For the Counties of Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill & SullivanOriginal 1850 Newspapers: The Times of London: Bound Volume, Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1850
Newspapers and Periodicals by and about Black People: Southeastern Library Holdings
An Index to North Carolina Newspapers, 1784-1789
The Woodville Republican: Mississippi's Oldest Existing Newspaper, Vols. 1-5 CD
American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1971-1985
American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924
Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982: Bibliography, Publishing Record, and HoldingsComstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News
The Eagle and Brooklyn: A Community Newspaper, 1841-1955
Alabama (Early American Printers)
Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Subject Guide for Researchers
Original 1826 Newspaper: New Harmony & Nashoba Gazette, a Newspaper Edited by Robert Dale Owens and Frances Wright, founder of Nashoba, the slave emancipation community near Memphis, Tennessee.
Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Mississippiana: Union List of NewspapersThe Sun Papers of Baltimore: 1837-1937
Historic Pages From the Baltimore Sun, 1837-1983
Search for an original issue of The Newark Daily Advertiser.
A History and Bibliography of Spanish-Language Newspapers and Magazines in Louisiana 1808-1949
It is Begun! The Pantagraph Reports: The Civil War
The History of the Irish Newspaper: 1685-1760
The Newspaper Book: A History of Newspapers in Ireland
Chronological Tables of American Newspapers, 1690-1820; Being a Tabular Guide to Holdings of Newspapers Published in America Through the Year 1820One Hundred Years of the Commercial Appeal... the Greatest Romance in American Journalism 1840-1940
The Memphis Commercial Appeal: the History of a Southern NewspaperA Century of Journalism: The Sydney Morning Herald and its Record of Australian Life, 1831-1931
Remington Brothers' Newspaper Manual... A Catalogue of the Newspapers of United States and Canada...
Years range from 1892-1900.The Pulpit, Press and Literature of the Revolution (Massachusetts-American Revolution)
The Lee Papers: A Saga of Midwestern Journalism
A Bibliography of Newspapers in Fourteen New York Counties: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, YatesOur Local Press: A Short Historical Account of the Newspapers of Walthamstow
Darlington NewspapersSherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press
The Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire Elections
West Virginia Verse of Today: An Anthology of Newspaper and Magazine VerseVirginia Newspapers 1821-1935, a Bibliography with Historical Introduction and Notes
One Hundred Years in Philadelphia, 1847-1947: The Evening Bulletin's Anniversary YearbookAgricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 1894-1923
Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette: The First Newspaper West of the Alleghenies
The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985
A History of the National Intelligencer
The Raleigh Register 1799-1863
Epitaph for an Editor: A Century of Journalism in Hinsdale and Gunnison Counties, 1875-1975
Voice of Empire: A Centennial Sketch of the Denver Post
The First Hundred Years; an Informal History of Denver and the Rocky Mountain News
Boom Town Newspapers: Journalism on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier 1859-1881
Fourth Estate Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers & of the Liberty of the Press
Ink on My Hands
(1940) Memoir of Clayton RAND, Editor of Neshoba Democrat in Philadelphia, MississippiNewark Daily Advertiser (7 December 1849)
The North-China Herald & Supreme Court & Consular Gazette
A Check List of Imprints of the German Press of Northampton County, Pennsylvania: 1766-1905Vintage L'Illustration
(Paris)
Australian Pictorial Weekly. an Illustrated Newspaper. (in Facsimile)
The California Publisher: Vol. XXVIII No. S 1-12
The Graphic Vol.10 1874 July-Dec and Jan-Mar 1875
The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers
Special Australian Supplement to the Illustrated London News
Stanley's Despatches to the New York Herald, 1871-1872, 1874-1877
The James Gordon Bennetts: Father & Son, Proprietors of the New York Herald
Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press
Japan Advertiser (Tokyo) 1922-1940, Bound in 82 Volumes
Original New York Herald: Bound Volume of 120 Issues From 1 January 1862 - 30 April 1862, With Much War Reportage
New York Times, October 1-15, 1929 (Complete in Bound Volume).
New York Semi Weekly Tribune for 1859 Complete (December 7, 1858-December 30, 1859)
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The Morning Post. Bound Volume of Newspapers (All With Red Revenue Stamps)London Times July to Dec. 1871
Australian Pictorial Weekly. an Illustrated Newspaper. (in Facsimile)
California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880
The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864
Virginia Imprint Series; Preliminary Checklist for Petersburg 1786-1876
Virginia Imprint Series Number 4. Preliminary Checklist for Fredericksburg
Bibliography of New Orleans Imprints: 1764-1864
The Correspondents' War: Journalism in the Spanish-American War
Personal Memoirs & Recollections of Editorial Life
(1852) by James Tinker BuckinghamCrime Extra: 300 Years of Crime in North America
The Recollections of a Virginia Newspaper Man
The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run
Service Newspapers of the Second World War
Newspaper Reporting in Olden Times and To-Day
(1890)Diary of the American Revolution From Newspaper and Original Documents
Untapped Sources: America's Newspaper Archives and Histories
Local Newspapers, 1750-1920 in England and Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man
Nevada Printing History: A Bibliography of Imprints & Publications, 1858-1880
The Newspapers of Nevada: A History and Bibliography, 1854-1979Nevada Newspaper Days: A History of Journalism in the Silver State
Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1983
Oklahoma Imprints 1835-1907. a History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood
Search for an Original Issue of Guinea Gold,
Official newspaper of the Australia Military Forces.Yesterday's News: History of the Newspaper Press in New South Wales From 1920 to 1945
I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
A List of Newspapers in the Virginia State Library, Confederate Museum and Valentine Museum
Salt Water & Printer's Ink: Norfolk and Its Newspapers, 1865-1965
Colonial American Newspapers: Character and Content
Older Than the Nation: the Story of the Hartford Courant
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune
Civil War Front Pages: a Collection of 157 Front Pages From the North and South
El Liberal Bound Volume of Newspapers From Caracas Venezuela. 1837-38
Truth, N. Z. , Jan. 3 to June 1945
Bound volume of this Auckland, New Zealand newspaper.
A History of Tennessee Newspapers
British Newspapers-a History and Guide for Collectors
The Story of an Independent Newspaper
(1924) The Springfield Republican...and The Passing of the "Springfield Republican". With a Foreword By George Rogers Taylor
Newspaper Story: Fifty Years of the Oregon Journal, 1902-1952
A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858Texas Extra; A Newspaper History of the Lone Star State, 1836-1936
After-Noon Story, a Century of the New Orleans States-Item
Pistols and Pointed Pens: The Dueling Editors of Old VirginiaOne Hundred Great Years the Story of the Times-Picayune From Its Founding to 1940
News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897
The History Makers: the Press of Europe From Its Beginnings Through 1965
The Changing Newspaper; Typographic Trends in Britain and America 1622-1972
Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis
Newspapering in the Old West; a pictorial history of journalism and printing on the frontier
The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers
A Century of Montana Journalism
Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1920
Newspaper Poets: Or Waifs and Their Authors
Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1927 and Year Book of Newspaper Poetry
The Humbler Poets: a Collection of Newspaper & Periodical Verse, 1870-1885
The Humbler Poets (second series); a Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1885 to 1910
Civil War Newspaper Maps: an Historical Atlas
Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action
Partisans of the Southern Press: Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century
Life in Amana: Reporters' Views of the Communal Way, 1867-1935
When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, New York's Great Newspaper Street (Communications and Media Studies, No. 2)
Twentieth Century American Newspapers
My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era
History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred YearsHome Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette
Story of the Pall Mall Gazette:
One Hundred Years of Famous Pages From the New York Times: 1851-1951
Lone Stars and State Gazettes, Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War
Hispanic Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960: A Brief History and Comprehensive Bibliography
"By all accounts, the most important document for studying history, literature, and culture of Hispanics in the United States has been Spanish-language newspapers. Now, a noted cultural historian an a respected indexer-bibliographer have teamed up to provide the first comprehensive and authoritative source on the production, worldview, and distribution of these periodicals. This useful compendium includes richly annotated entries, notes, and three indexes: by subject, by date, and by geography. The bibliography includes some 1,700 entries in standard bibliographic annotation."Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers
The Insiders Guide to Old Books, Magazines, Newspapers and Trade Catalogs
Obituaries in American Culture
The Metropolitan Daily News: Understanding American Newspapers
The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740
So All Is Not Lost: The Poetics of Print in Nuevomxicano Communities, 1834-1958
Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920
Wit & Wisdom of Missouri's Country Editors
Local News: Tabloid Pictures from the Los Angeles Herald Express 1928 to 1959
A Glimpse of News Past
"In her attic Rita Frost Lynch found rare, intact copies of the Courier, Murfreesboro's first newspaper, from the years 1830-1832.
Stories, business notices, advertisements, and news items offer rare insight into not only Rutherford County in the early 1830s, but also the world. Articles vary from an entertaining account of a young sleep walker to an involved discussion of the present disturbances in Europe. Ads and essays give a firsthand look at the social culture of the age with classifieds reporting runaway slaves and letters reminding women of their secondary status."The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator
Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers
Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: A Visual Chronicle of Our Time
Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from Its Beginnings to the Present
Pearl Harbor Extra: A Newspaper Account of the United States' Entry into World War II
Blue and Gray in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War
Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History Of The Civil War From Nat Turner to 1863 ( Volume I) & 1863 to 1865 ( Volume II)
Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
News Values: Ideas for an Information Age In this thoughtful, discursive book, Jack Fuller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning publisher of the Chicago Tribune, explores how the press ended up in the bind it now finds itself: the messenger everyone loves to hate. He points out that the whole idea of news that's actually true is itself new; newspaper used to be mainly propaganda sheets. But that development has led news professionals into messy problems. Such as: What does it mean when prominent newsmen such as Mike Wallace say they'd let U.S. troops get ambushed rather than break their so-called "neutral observer" status?* Fuller provides seasoned guidance through these modern thickets.
Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940
Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914-1920
The Day Paper: The Story of One of America's Last Independent Newspapers
Maps With the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
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* One wonders.... would Mike Wallace then, in turn, expect our military to lay down their lives to protect him?
Of course, he won't ever have to ask that question. Our armed forces bravely risk and give their lives for us, and for our freedom.
Even for such "neutral observers."