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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Dr. Steven Lomazow
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Local ID: 2066

Estimated Value: $600

Title: Illustrated News
Category: Illustrated Newspaper
Volume: 1-2
Issue: 1-48
Date: January – July 1853
Published in: New York, NY
A short-lived news-oriented weekly, not unlike “Illustrated American News” (570). It was co-owned by P. T. Barnum and the illustrations were supervised by Frank Leslie. It attained a circulation of 70,000 and merged into “Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion” (569), later “Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.” Volume also contains Montgomery’s Pictorial Times V.1 N. 1 – 9