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"Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist" 1861

This collection consists of five items:
1. 20 page mss
2. 2 page partial transcription
3. 21 page typed trancription
4. 19 page edited transcription
5. 2 copies Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society

This collection centers around the incomplete memoirs of Francis H. (Frank) Schell (1834-1909), a special war artist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, one of two illustrated national weekly newspapers published during the Civil War. These memoirs, edited by Sue Rainey, were published as Francis H. Schell, "Recollections of a Leslie's Special Artist in the Civil War: No. 1 Baltimore in 1861 Generals Butler and Banks and the Baffled Insurrectionists," Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Societyvol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 18-26. A copy of this article is included with the collection.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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