Bathing at Long Branch over the years

Unidentified artist, “An Every-Day Scene, Bathing at Long Branch New Jersey,” in The New York Illustrated News, August 15, 1863. Wood engraving. Oversize 0901.D389f Henry Collins Bispham (1841-1882), “Our Summer Resorts, Bathing at Long Branch. Sketched by our special artist, Mr. Bispham” in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, September 12, 1863. Wood engraving. Annex A, Forrestal […]

Daguerreotype of Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) made his first lecture tour in the United States from late 1852 into 1853. While in New York City, he is known to have had a photograph made at Jeremiah Gurney’s Daguerrean Saloon located at 349 Broadway. Whether this small plate is by Gurney is doubtful. The daguerreotype was later engraved […]

Yankee Notions

Designed by J. McLenan The American illustrator John McLenan (1825-1865) moved to New York City in 1851 and within a year sold drawings to illustrate Baynard Rush Hall’s Frank Freeman’s Barber Shop; Sarah Josepha Buell Hale’s, Northwood, or, Life North and South; The Mother’s Pictorial Primer; and An Old Fogies Advice to a Young’un or […]

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