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P. T. Barnum was a "special partner"... Scenes of Tahiti... Notre Dame...



Item # 700104

October 22, 1853

ILLUSTRATED NEWS, New York, Oct. 22, 1853  Formatted much like Harper's Weekly, but published 4 years previous to the more famous title. P.T. Barnum was a "Special Partner" in this publication as noted on one of the back pages.
Among prints within are: "Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad, Chili" "Entrance to the Bosphorus, Turkey" "The Carrollton Viaduct on the Baltimore Railroad" "The Great Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, Paris"; 6 prints of the: "Salt Mines of Poland"  "Sketches in Otaheite [Tahiti] - View of the Hamlet of Cape-Hona" "Sketches In Otaheita - View of the Bay of Papenoo" and: "Cathedral Montreal".
Sixteen pages, good condition.

Item from our most recent catalog - #358, released for September, 2025

Category: Pre-Civil War