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4 unusual facts about Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper


Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

The March 30, 1861, issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper contains a detailed sketch of the hospital interior.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

After Leslie's death in 1880, the magazine was continued by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie.

It was one of several magazines started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie.

Among the writers publishing their stories in the weekly were Louisa May Alcott, H. Irving Hancock, Helen R. Martin, and Ellis Parker Butler.


Alfred Gilpin Jones

She wrote for the Toronto Week, and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts," to Frank Leslie's Monthly.

John Gilmary Shea

He turned his attention to literature, and was connected in an editorial capacity with Frank Leslie's publishing house and later edited the Catholic News.

Maturin Murray Ballou

Illustrators who worked for Ballou included John Andrew, Charles A. Barry, W.L. Champney, John Chapin, William Croome, Charles Damoreau, George Devereux, Winslow Homer, Frank Leslie, John Manning, Emile Masson, Samuel Worcester Rowse, William Wade, Alfred Waud, William Waud.

Miriam Leslie

She divorced Ephraim Squier on May 31, 1873, to marry publisher Frank Leslie.

She was the wife of Frank Leslie and the heir to his publishing business which she developed into a paying concern from a state of precarious indebtedness.

Tower City, North Dakota

In 1878, a man named George Ellsbury, a former artist for Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Illustrated Magazine turned real estate agent, came to Tower's lands in Cass and Barnes Counties, ND.

Willie Wilde

On 4 October 1891, aged 39, Willie married a wealthy widow, Mrs. Frank Leslie, (1836–1914), the owner of the Frank Leslie Publishing Co. in New York.


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Swill milk scandal

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper staked out distillery owner Bradish Johnson's mansion at 21st and Broadway, and reported that in the midst of the investigation, Tuomey was observed making late night visits.