''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion'' was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851–1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851.
The publication name was changed to ''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. It ceased publication in 1859.
The ''Pictorial'' featured artists such as Winslow Homer, and authors such as: Giddings H. Ballou, Susan H. Blaisdell, Alice Carey, Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., Sophronia Currier, Mrs. S.P. Doughty, Francis Alexander Durivage, Francis A. Durivage, Aglaus Forrester, Mrs. H.C. Gardner, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Grace Lee, Mary A. Lowell, Mary L. Meany, Ellen Alice Moriarty, Arthur Morton, Frances P. Pepperell, Mary E. Robinson, M.V. St. Leon, Frederick Ward Saunders, Sue M. Scott, Maurice Silingsby, Frederick Stanhope, Horace B. Staniford, John Thornberry, Winnie Woodfern, and Joseph Wolf.
Images
File:Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion Subscription Terms 1853.jpg
Image:Gleasons 18oct1851 cover.JPG, Issue for 18 October 1851, showing Gleason's Publishing Hall, Tremont Street, Boston
Image:1851 Antislavery BostonCommon Gleason.png, Anti-Slavery meeting on the Boston Common (Gleason's, May 1851)
Image:Gleasons 12july1851 cover.JPG, Grand display of firemen, Boston Common, 1851
Image:1853 4thJuly FaneuilHall Gleasons.png, Fourth of July festivities at Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1853
Image:GleasonsPict 1854 3.JPG, Gleason's, 1854
Image:1859 BostonStreetCharacters byWinslowHomer Ballous.jpg, Boston Street Characters, by Winslow Homer (Ballou's, July 9, 1859)
Image:Winslow Homer - Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion - Google Art Project.jpg, Wood-engraving of Paul Morphy, after Winslow Homer (Ballou's, July 2, 1859)
File:Franklin College 1851.jpg, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Franklin College in Athens, GA, USA
References
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Further reading
* ''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion''
v.1(1851)
v.2(1852)
v.3(1852)
v.4(1853)
v.5-6(1853–54).
* ''Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion''
v.7-8(1854–55)
v.9-10(1855–56)
v.11-12(1856–57)
v.13-14(1857–58)
v.15-16(1858–59)
v.17(1859).
External links
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