Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
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Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, a 19th-century American periodical in the same vein as Harper's Weekly.
[edit] History
The magazine was founded in 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts as Gleason's Pictorial, changing its name to Ballou's Pictorial in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Ballou bought out the interest of Frederick Gleason.
The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853.
The magazine continued in its original format until 1859. In later decades it existed as Ballou's Monthly Magazine or Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine until it folded in June of 1893.
[edit] Artists
Like other pictorial newspapers or magazines, Ballou's featured artists such as Winslow Homer.
[edit] Links
An index of illustrations by artist Winslow Homer that appeared in Ballou's Pictorial
