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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYHSKL_161221_01.JPG: Eight anonymous manuscript "Dime Novels," late nineteenth of early twentieth century. The creator(s) of these miniature "dime novels" clearly had that genre in mind: their alliterative titles, exotic settings, and graphic color illustrations (all drawn freehand!) mimic the adventure-filled serials that sold for ten cents around the turn of the twentieth century. Compare the leopard mauling a man on the cover of Will Wizard: Or, the Young Hunter Afloat (bottom row, second from left), to the lion mauling a man on the cover of A New-York Boy Out with Stanley; Or, A Journey Through Africa, issued in 1901. Although these diminutive works were purposely written by "E.T. Ellis," "Lieutenant T. Mark," "Ned Perce," and "Captain Starbuck," these names are probably pseudonyms for one or two authors who may or may not have copied from existing publications. Unlike most dime novels, which followed the cliffhanging exploits of their characters week to week, these little magazines are each "complete in one number."
2. NYHSKL_161221_07.JPG: Richard H. Gosman (1875-1946), three issues of The Peoples [sic] Paper, March, April, and June 1887. Richard "Dick" Gosman was born in 1875 and raised on a farm in Blissville, Queens. Between ages ten and fourteen (1886-1889) he produced several handcrafted periodicals, of which his monthly Peoples Paper ran the longest, from January 1887 through at least February 1888. Dick (whose self-portrait graces the cover of the March 1887 issue) copied stories from printed journals like Harper's Young People and Golden Days for Boys and Girls, but he also "published" original tales, local news, and funny pictures, like the one below from April 1887 of John L. Sullivan, the Boxing Elephant, a genuine circus attraction of the day. Advertisements on the back page of the June 1887 issue hawked real stories like Ridley's, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, as well as Dick's own poultry and egg business. A regular "Household Column" carried recipes, but one senses how the editor must have pestered his mother once too often or ideas: he announced conclusively in July 1887 that "NO RECEIPTS WILL BE IN THE PEOPLES PAPER ANY MORE."
3. NYHSKL_161221_12.JPG: Prison Times (Fort Delaware, Delaware City, Del.), vol. 1, no. 1 (April 1865). In April 1865, near the end of the Civil War, the Confederate detainees at For Delaware, on Pea Patch Island, created a manuscript newspaper, the Prison Times, which so closely mimicked printed publications that it included a masthead, motto ("en temps et lieu," or "in time and place"), and advertisements for shoemaking, dentistry, and other services available in the camp. There were even debating clubs. The contributors' wish to be "far away in our loved Sunny South" before they could have time to produce subsequent numbers came true: the hostilities ceased soon after this issue came out, so it remains an anomaly. Four copies are known to survive, each in the meticulous script of Captain J.W. Hibbs of the 13th Virginia Infantry, CSA.
4. NYHSKL_161221_25.JPG: All the News That's Fit to Print - By Hand: Manuscript Periodicals from the New-York Historical Society
5. NYHSKL_161221_26.JPG: James Johns (1797-1874), Vermont Autograph and Remarker (Huntington, Vt.), 1 December 1854. Were it not for its upward slanting lines of text, one might guest this tiny newspaper rolled off a press, but it was "pen printed." Pen printing was a form of precise penmanship which strove to mimic type. A master of the art, and the creator of this issue of the Vermont Autograph and Remarker, was James Johns, self-appointed (and largely self-educated) chronicler of the Green Mountain State. For nearly sixty-five years he churned out stories, poems, sermons and acrostics, but his occasional newspaper enjoyed the widest circulation. He distributed it for token sums (but more frequently gratis) between 1833 and 1873. Although Johns acquired a hand press in 1857, it lacked sufficient type of ink all four pages of the paper simultaneously, so he reverted to his tried -- and quicker -- method of pen printing.
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