Frank Leslie's Weekly

[Johnny Lloyd]

Another "citation" from Wiki, but it got me thinking:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Leslie%27s_Weekly

Is anyone making period-correct copies of Frank Leslie's Weekly? I have seen copies of Harper's Weekly galore (I used one copy of Harpers I had as "necessary paper" at W64- soft on the posterior region, let me tell you... probably only good for that anyway. LOL)

It was refreshing at W64 to see the New York Tribune broadsheet being sold. I feel it was something different.... Not as sanitary paper, but as actual reading material.

Thanks- Johnny Lloyd

[Spinster]

Re: Frank Leslie's Weekly

I've seen different individual copies of Leslies at the Gettysburg and Fort Moultrie NPS sites in recent years.

I'm clueless as to who is making them though--once I've read them, I tend to slice them up to line band boxes and trunks, and the maker's name is now lost to me.

[90thOHCoG]

Re: Frank Leslie's Weekly

There's a seller on ebay who currently has three different repro copies of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, along with some Southern Illustrated repro newspapers and quite a few Harper's. His prices are reasonable ($2.99 per copy), and the modern copyright notice on the paper is very small (fine print on the bottom of the final page on my July 25, 1863 Leslie's). The seller's name is historical_newspaper_boy. See his current list of items here.