Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion

Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. The Pictorial featured artists such as Winslow Homer, and authors such as:

Images

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  Issue for 18 October, 1851, showing Gleason's Publishing Hall, Tremont Street, Boston

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  Anti-Slavery meeting on the Boston Common (Gleason's, May 1851)

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  Grand display of firemen, Boston Common, 1851

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  Fourth of July festivities at Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1853

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  Gleason's, 1854

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  Boston Street Characters, by Winslow Homer (Ballou's, July 9, 1859)

Further reading

• David Tatham. A Drawing by Winslow Homer: Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets. American Art Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 40-50.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gleason's Pictorial

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• An index of illustrations by artist Winslow Homer that appeared in Ballou's Pictorial
• http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a06000/3a06300/3a06374u.tif
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/lm/193/