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Book Review
| Beyond the Lines:
Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age
America. By Joshua Brown. (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2002. xxiv, 361 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-520-23103-1.)
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| This imaginative and thorough piece of scholarship provides a social history of illustrated news journalismas represented in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaperfrom the mid-1850s through the 1880s. Itself a tribute to the dedication of its publisher, the book contains 105 illustrationsone for every 2.3 pages of textand extensive footnotes. |
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