Advertisement selling hard-gotten war photographs
Dublin Core
Title
Advertisement selling hard-gotten war photographs
Description
Description taken from website:
The stereograph sensation is evident in these advertisements on the last page of the April 29, 1865, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. With the war now over, stereograph publishers began to focus on the medium’s use as documentary evidence of the history of the war, as is evident in the bottom ad: “Obtained at great expense and forming a complete PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE GREAT UNION CONTEST….Everybody is interested in these memorable scenes.” The demand is emphasized even further by the top advertisement, which notes that the Christian Commission will donate 25 percent of the revenue raised by the sale of “Albums, Stereoscopic Views and Card Photographs” within a two-week period to the “relief of our sick and wounded soldiers.”
The stereograph sensation is evident in these advertisements on the last page of the April 29, 1865, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. With the war now over, stereograph publishers began to focus on the medium’s use as documentary evidence of the history of the war, as is evident in the bottom ad: “Obtained at great expense and forming a complete PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE GREAT UNION CONTEST….Everybody is interested in these memorable scenes.” The demand is emphasized even further by the top advertisement, which notes that the Christian Commission will donate 25 percent of the revenue raised by the sale of “Albums, Stereoscopic Views and Card Photographs” within a two-week period to the “relief of our sick and wounded soldiers.”
Creator
Frank Leslie
Source
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Publisher
The American Antiquarian Society
Date
April 29, 1865
Contributor
"The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865," a project of the American Antiquarian Society
Language
English
Identifier
http://americanantiquarian.org/earlyamericannewsmedia/exhibits/show/news-and-the-civil-war/item/92
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Newspaper advertisement (print on newsprint)
Physical Dimensions
40 cm.
Files
Citation
Frank Leslie, “Advertisement selling hard-gotten war photographs,” Materiality and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century United States 2017, accessed December 1, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality/items/show/29.