Beyond the lines : pictorial reporting, everyday life, and the crisis of gilded age America

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of __Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,__ with relevant asides to __Harper's Weekly,__ the __New York Daily Graphic,__ and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises—the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more. This book is the best available source on the pictorial riches of Frank Leslie's newspaper and the only study to situate these images fully within the social context of Gilded Age America. __Beyond the Lines__ illuminates the role of illustration in nineteenth-century America and gives us a new look at how the social milieu shaped the practice of illustrated journalism and was in turn shaped by it. In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that thewood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age Americawere more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media.As he tells the history and traces the influence of FrankLeslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides toHarper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic, andothers, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorialreporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers forgauging how the general public perceived pivotal events andcrises-the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, andmore. This book is the best available source on the pictorialriches of Frank Leslie's newspaper and the only study to situatethese images fully within the social context of Gilded Age America.Beyond the Lines illuminates the role of illustration innineteenth-century America and gives us a new look at how thesocial milieu shaped the practice of illustrated journalism and wasin turn shaped by it "Today video clips and photojournalism dominate our news sources, but in the second half of the nineteenth century, the pictorial newspaper brought events and personalities alive for a hungry public. In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than quaint predecessors to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides on Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises - the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more - and uses them as a rewarding source for understanding the era."--BOOK JACKET. Shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. This illustrated book tells the history and traces the influence of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", with relevant asides to "Harper's Weekly", the "New York Daily Graphic", and others. With this paragraph, Frederic Hudson embarked on a survey of "the illustrated newspapers" in his 1873 Journalism in the United States.