Print of a California battle... The sensational Jenny Lind...

Item # 705951

May 17, 1851

GLEASON'S PICTORIAL DRAWING-ROOM COMPANION, Boston, May 17, 1851 The front page shows: "Packet Ship Isaac Webb, of New York." Inside prints include: "Encounter with a Whale" "Race Course on Long Island" "Scene at the Revere House" "Castle Garden, New York" "Gen. Winfield Scott" and "Jenny Lind" which includes an article on her. She was promoted by P. T. Barnum as the "Swedish Nightingale" was was a huge sensation in America at the time.
Also: "Giovanni Belletti" "Interior of Castle Garden, New York" "Battle of San Gabriel, California" which may be the earliest periodical print of a battle in California; "View of the City of Mazatlan" "Scene from Cambridge Bridge" and "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge", and 4 prints of: 'New Coins" being the gold $50 California coin, and the three cent coin.
Sixteen pages, 11 by 15 inches, water staining does not deter readability, light foxing.