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Item #704691BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, July 25, 1857
* Very early view of San Francisco
* Salt Lake Tabernacle under construction
Formatted much like the more common Harper's Weekly, this illustrated paper printed several years earlier.
The front page features a print of a: "View Of San Francisco, California" which a... Read full description -
Item #703835BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 26, 1856
* Lowell, Massachusetts scenes
The front page features a print of: "The New Addition to the Boston State House" with a related article.
Other prints include: "Boston Railroad Depot, Lowell, Mass." "Junction of the Concord & Merrimac Rivers, Lowell, Mass."... Read full description -
Item #698745BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 28, 1855 A periodical much in the style of the more popular Harper's Weekly, but this title existed before Harper's did.
The front page has a print of: "May Morning". Additional prints inside include: "Western Railroad Depot, Pittsfield, Mass. ""View of Pittsfield,... Read full description -
Item #694740(5) WHOLESALE VARIETY LOT of five illustrated issues from the 19th century in average or better condition. Titles may include any of the following: Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Gleason's, Ballou's, and/or similar. Well over 25 prints from 1866-1899! Each will have only minor (typical) wear,... Read full description -
Item #694718(10) WHOLESALE VARIETY LOT of ten 2nd-rate and damaged illustrated issues. A blended lot of titles may include any of the following: Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Scientific American, London Illustrated, Gleason's, Ballou's, etc. Well over 50 prints will be found within this lot.
All... Read full description -
Item #690063BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Oct. 22, 1859 The front page has a print of: "The Old Salt House, Long Wharf, Boston".
Other prints within include: "View on the Chenango River, New York"; a montage of 7 prints of: "Remarkable Trees" and more.
Sixteen pages, good condition. -
Item #690062BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Sept. 24, 1859 The front page has a print of: "The State Encampment at Concord, Massachusetts". Among various prints within: "The Great Crater of the Fudsi Gamma, Japan" "Scene In a Turkish Coffee House" "City of Corfu, as Seen from the Island of Vido"... Read full description -
Item #690061BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 3, 1859
* Early Sand Key Lighthouse illustration
The front page has a print of: "Hon. John F. Potter, of Wisconsin" with an article on him.
Among the other prints are: "Plan of the Improvements to Be Made in the Boston Public Garden" with the back page having a... Read full description -
Item #690060BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Sept. 3, 1859 Inside has two parades of text with 8 prints of: "Suburban Scenery Around Boston". The prints include: "Nonantum, Brighnton" "J. W. Edmand's House, Newton Centre" "Lyman Place, Waltham" "Jesse Locke's House, Watertown" "
Wm. F.... Read full description -
Item #690059BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 24, 1859 The front page features a print: "Winter Scene in New England" showing a sleigh ride.
Prints within include: "Ornamented Paneling at the Capitol, Washington" "Japanese Sporting" "View of the Harlem River, Near High Bridge, New York".
This is... Read full description -
Item #690057BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 10, 1859 Although there are several prints in this issue, perhaps the most notable for collection would be the one-third page print: "View of Bedford Township, and the Alleghenies, Pennsylvania" which has a related article.
Sixteen pages, good condition. -
Item #690056BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 17, 1859 The front page has a print of: "The Washington Building, Washington Street, Boston" with a related article.
Prints within include: "New University College, Toronto, Canada" and: "Eglinton Suspension Bridge, Macquarie River, Bathurst, New South... Read full description -
Item #690048BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 25, 1858 The front page features a print and article on: "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow".
Among several prints inside is: "Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip D.C., Bishop of California" and a bkpg. print of a: "View of the Town of Fontenay-Vendee, France".
Sixteen pages, good condition. -
Item #690047BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Oct. 23, 1858 The front page features a print and article: "Scene on the Mississippi, At Memphis, Tennessee" which shows two paddle-wheelers.
Among the prints within are: "The Orcas Institute for Young Ladies, Near Worcester, Mass." "The New Bridge at Brest in France"... Read full description -
Item #690046BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 18, 1858 The front page features a print and article: "Rock Island Railroad Bridge, on the Mississippi River".
Other prints within include: "The Aissaouas of Algeria" "The Pacha of Egypt's New Steam Yacht 'Said' " and more.
Sixteen pages, good condition. -
Item #690045BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Sept. 4, 1858 The front page features a print and article: "View of the City Hall, Richmond, Virginia".
Prints within include: "View of Jeddah, Scene of the Late Insurrection" "Stolzenfels on the Rhine" "View o the Town of Tolosa, Spain" and more.
Sixteen pages, good condition. -
Item #690044BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Sept. 18, 1858 The front page features a print and article: "View of Tarrytown, From the Hudson River". Inside has an additional two pages of text and 5 more prints including: "Washington's Head Quarters, Tappan, New York" "Erie Railroad Pier, Piermont & Nyack, From... Read full description -
Item #690043BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, July 24, 1858 The front page features a print and article: "United States Marine Hospital and Mississippi River, New Orleans".
Prints within include: "Mount Blanc and the Village of Chamouni [Chamonix]" plus two pages with an article and 5 prints headed: "American... Read full description -
Item #690039BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Aug. 7, 1858 The front page features two prints: "Artesian Wells in Charleston, S.C." and: "Forts Pinckney and Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina" with a related article. An inside page has a print of: "The Levee, at New Orleans, Louisiana" with a related article as... Read full description -
Item #690038BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, June 5, 1858 The front page features a nice print: "The Late Crevasse [breach of a river bank] act Bell's Plantation Near New Orleans" with an article.
Inside has 2 pages of text with 4 prints of: "Views in Richmond Virginia" including: "Head Quarters of Lafayette at Richmond"... Read full description -
Item #690037BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, July 31, 1858 The front page features a nice print: "The New Post office, Corner of Summer & Chauncy Streets, Boston" with an article.
Inside has two pages of text with 6 prints of: "A Trip to Lake Memphremagog" which is between Vermont & Quebec (though mostly in Quebec) including:... Read full description -
Item #690036BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, July 3, 1858 The front page features a nice print: "Class Day at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass." with a related article.
Prints within include: "Arabic French School for Boys, at Algiers" and; "Girls' School in Algiers Under Direction of Madame Luce".
Two pages are taken... Read full description -
Item #690034BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 24, 1858 The front page features a nice print of the: "Cathedral of St. Louis & Jackson Square, New Orleans" with a related article.
Prints within include: "President's Levee--Portico of the White House, Washington" and a series of 17 prints of: "The... Read full description -
Item #690033BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 3, 1858 The front page has a print of: "St. Jermain's Hotel, Chazy Lake, Northern New York" with a related article.
Among other prints inside: "Protestant Episcopal Church, Harlem, New York" and; "A Group of Shakers at Prayer" which has an article with the same heading.... Read full description -
Item #690032BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Feb. 13, 1858 The front page has a print of: "The Wreck of the Ship Serampore, off Cohasset", Massachusetts. There is a related article.
Inside has 2 pages of text with 6 prints of: "Views on the Hudson River" including: "Fort Washington Depot" "Block House Pointy" "View... Read full description -
Item #690031BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Jan. 16, 1858
* Pre-Civil War Southern city views - prints
Inside has two pages with 4 prints on: "Macon, Georgia" including: "Botanic College at Macon" "Court House, Jail & Gas Works" "Female College at Macon" and: "Railroad Station".
The back page has a... Read full description -
Item #690030BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 26, 1857 The front page features an article and print: "The Great Eastern Steamship, the Leviathan of the Deep".
Inside has two pages of text and 4 prints on: "Portland, Maine" in eluding a nice: "View of Portland & the Great Eastern Depot..." "View... Read full description -
Item #690029BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 19, 1857 The front page features an article and print: "An Everyday Scene In Washington Street, Boston".
Inside has 2 pages of text and 4 prints on: "The Mohawk Valley, New York" showing: "Court House, Fonda, New York" "Butler's Falls, East Canada Creed"... Read full description -
Item #690028BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Nov. 21, 1857 The front page features a very nice: ":View of the Capitol Montgomery, Alabama which in a few years be the capital of the Confederacy before moving to Richmond. There is also a related article.
Inside has a full page article: "Scenes in Hawaii, Sandwich Islands" with 6... Read full description -
Item #690027BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Nov. 14, 1857
* Pre Civil War street scenes and views
Inside has two pages of descriptive text with 8 prints of "Rahway, New Jersey" including 2 churches, 2 residences, and "View In Main Street, Rahway" "Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank" "and: "View in... Read full description -
Item #690026BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Oct. 31, 1857 The front page has an article and related print on: "Emigrants At Constitution Wharf, Boston".
Other prints include: "Perils of the Pacific Whale Trade" and a terrific & very detailed full page: "General View of the City of Dubuque, Iowa". Additionally there is a... Read full description -
Item #690025BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, May 8, 1858 The front page has an article and two prints of: "Ethan Allen's Monument" and: "Grave of Ethan Allen at Burlington, Vermont".
Inside has 2 pages of descriptive text with 4 prints of: "Dobbs' Ferry, New York" including: "The Livingston Mansion"... Read full description -
Item #690024BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, May 1, 1858 Inside has 2 pages of text with 8 prints of: "Cottage Architecture". Also a print of: "The Union School any Niles, Michigan" with an article, plus: "The City of Kandahar, Afghanistan".
Sixteen pages, nice condition. -
Item #690023BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 10, 1858 Prints within include: "Wood-Choppers Attacked by a Bear in the Forests of Maine". Also 2 pages of text with 5 prints on: "Views in Portland, Maine" including 3 churches, "The Reform School" and the: "Marine Hospital, Martin's Point".
Another print shows:... Read full description -
Item #690020BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Feb. 6, 1858 The front page features an article and print of: "Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Mayor of Boston".
An inside page has an article and two prints of "Syracuse, New York" including: "General View of the City" and: "View of Salina Street". The back page has a print of... Read full description -
Item #690019BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Jan. 9, 1858 The front page has a print: "Station House, Hotel & Steamboat Landing at Rouse's Point, New York" with a related article.
Inside has 2 pages of descriptive text with 4 prints of "Racine, Wisconsin" including: "College at Racine" "The New Fourth Street... Read full description -
Item #690017BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Dec. 12, 1857 Two pages with text includes four prints of: "Columbus and Xenia, Ohio" including: "View of the Lunatic Asylum, Columbus" "Bridge Over the Big Darby, Ohio" "Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus" and; "Railroad Station at Xenia". A few other... Read full description -
Item #690016BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Oct. 10, 1857 The front page features a print of the: "Surf & Bell Boat, Harding's Ledge, Boston Harbor".
Other prints within include 5 of St. Paul, Minnesota including: "City Hall" "First Presbyterian Church" "Fuller House" "The Capitol" and a nice... Read full description -
Item #690007BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, May 30, 1857 The front page features a print of: "Mr. Edwin Booth, as 'Sir Giles Overreach' " with an article on him. He was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth.
Prints within include: "Boats Attacked by Walruses, Arctic Regions" "The Wrestling Tent--A Japanese National Sport"... Read full description -
Item #690005BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, May 9, 1857 The front page features a print of: "The Foreign Factories, Canton". Other prints within include four prints of: "Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan" including the "Principal Street" "Upper Entrance, Sault Ste. Marie Canal" "Fort Brady" and: "Lower Entrance... Read full description -
Item #690001BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 4, 1857 Inside has 3 prints of "The Island of St. Pauls, Indian Ocean". Other prints include: "The Female College At Worcester, Massachusetts" more formally known as the Ladies' Collegiate Institute. It would close in 1860.
Also a print of: "Union Railroad Depot, Troy, New... Read full description -
Item #689995BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Feb. 7, 1857
* Jersey City neighborhood scene
The front page has a print & article: "The Dogs of St. Bernard". Among the prints within is a nice view of; "Communipaw, New Jersey" with an article on the town. Communipaw is now a neighborhood in Jersey City.
Sixteen pages, nice condition.... Read full description -
Item #689993BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Jan. 10, 1857 The front page has an emblematic print of the state of "Mississippi" with a related article.
Prints within include: "Boats of Foreign Countries", two pages with seven view of Lynn, Massachusetts including: "View on the Common" "Moll Pitcher's... Read full description -
Item #689992BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, June 28, 1856 The front page has a print: "Scene in Fulton Market, New York City" with an article. A great, tipped-in doublepage centerfold: "Representation of Brighton Market, Near Boston, On Market Day".
Sixteen pages, scattered foxing, good condition. -
Item #689989BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, May 24, 1856 The front page has a print of: "The Thousand Islands--River St. Lawrence" and a related article.
Prints within include: "Island of Labuan, Borneo"; a nice full page: "Scene In the Canadian Fur District, North America" and another; "American Indians Receiving Their Annual... Read full description -
Item #689988BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 26, 1856 The front page features a print of: "The New Addition to the Boston State House" with a related article.
Other prints include: "Boston Railroad Depot, Lowell, Mass." "Junction of the Concord & Merrimac Rivers, Lowell, Mass." "Court House, Lowell" and: "View of Merrimac St., Lowell". The back page... Read full description -
Item #689987BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, April 19, 1856 The front page features an emblematic print of the: "State of Illinois" with a related article.
Other prints within include a full page with 3 prints of transportation in India; a wonderful & large, tipped-in doublepage centerfold of the; "NATIONAL... Read full description -
Item #689984BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, March 15, 1856 Most of the front page is taken up with: "Central View of Waltham, Massachusetts" with a related article.
Prints within include two full page prints on: "Then Battle off Buena Vista, Mexico--Generals Taylor &B Santa Anna" and "Storming of Chapultepec, Mexico--Generals... Read full description -
Item #689983BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, March 8, 1856 The front page is taken up with: "Various Railroad Depots In Boston".
Among the prints within two pages with 8 prints of "New Bedford", Massachusetts, including the "City Hall & Market" and: "Court House" and "Custom House". The back page has 2... Read full description -
Item #689982BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, March 1, 1856 The front page is mostly taken up with an emblematic print of the: "State of Vermont".
Among the prints within are: "John Taylor & Sons' Brewery, Albany, New York' "Snow Scene in Albany"; a great, tipped-in doublepage centerfold: "Cleopatras Barge, the Great Boston Sleigh,... Read full description
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