Title
Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Gazette of Fashion
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Frank Leslie
Date
July 1854
Subject
Volume 2, number 1
Description
After a brief stint in Boston, Frank Leslie returned to New York to illustrate for Barnum’s Illustrated News in 1853. He began his first independent publishing venture, Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Gazette of Fashion, in January 1854, the first of a publishing empire of dozens of magazines that crossed many genres over the next quarter of a century.