First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

During the nineteenth century Joseph Becker and thirteen of his colleagues served as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. These Special Artists, as they were called, drew and sent back for publication images detailing the Civil War and the Indian Wars, the construction of the railroads and the transatlantic telegraph cable, the Chinese in the West, and the Great Chicago Fire, among other milestones in American history.Publis...

By Judith Bookbinder
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Mcmullen Museum Of Art, Boston College (March 15, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 189285015X
ISBN-13: 978-1892850157
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 1 x 8.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 3840393
Format: PDF Text djvu ebook

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This is a catalog of a display of original sketches done by artists embedded with the Union Army. They were then engraved and published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Not all were published especially at the end when the fall of Petersburg

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