Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Gazette of Fashion

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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.