The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals

One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's.  A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.

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Local ID: 110

Estimated Value: $300

Title: America: A Journal of Today
Category: Americana, Literary
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: April 1888
Published in: Chicago, IL
A weekly, founded by Slason Thompson, whose political views included opposition to immigration, suffrage, and the Catholic church. The first issue contains articles by Eugene Field and James Russell Lowell. Later issues featured political cartoons by Thomas Nast. Later, it was subtitled “Devoted to Honest Politics and Good Literature.” Merged into Graphic.