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A job for the new cabinet maker – Vintage Print

A job for the new cabinet maker, 1861 — antique engraving
A job for the new cabinet maker, 1861. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Published in the February 2, 1861, issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, this wood engraving is titled *A job for the new cabinet maker*, and the surviving record says little more about the scene it shows. Frank Leslie's was a New York weekly that filled its pages with engravings of current events, portraits and everyday life, and this piece appeared on page 176 of that issue. Wood engravers of the period cut images into blocks, often working from artists' sketches, and printed them alongside the paper's text. The engraving dates from the winter before the Civil War began in April 1861, when the weekly's pages were crowded with political news.

Created / published1861
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861 Feb. 2, p. 176. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,244 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125056

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