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.
Local ID: 382
Estimated Value: $200
| Title: | Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science and Art |
| Category: | Literary, Science, Art, Winslow Homer |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1-20 |
| Date: | April – August 1869 |
| Published in: | New York, NY |
| A weekly which featured short, readable articles which furnished an accurate picture of contemporary ideas and interests. Initially edited by Edward Youmans, who later edited “Popular Science Monthly” (808), it is loaded with exciting and beautiful metropolitan scenes and American views done by Homer and others, and twenty four illustrated supplements, many being large fold-outs up to 11″x 28″ in size. According to Mott, ‘few periodicals furnished a better picture of the varied life of the times.’ | |