[Front page of The New York Family Story Paper, Oct. 13, 1873: feature story is Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth deserted Charlotte Temple"]" – Vintage Print
![[Front page of The New York Family Story Paper, Oct. 13, 1873: feature story is Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth deserted Charlotte Temple"]", 1873 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/982267abe716-L.webp)
(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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[Front page of The New York Family Story Paper, Oct. 13, 1873: feature story is Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth deserted Charlotte Temple"]" comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Front page of The New York Family Story Paper, Oct. 13, 1873: feature story is Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth deserted Charlotte Temple"]"
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A line engraving of the front page of the *New York Family Story Paper* for October 13, 1873, which leads with a serialized version of *Charlotte Temple*, the sentimental tale of a young English girl abandoned by her lover in New York. Susanna Rowson first published the novel in 1791, and it became one of the most widely read American books of the early republic. By 1873 it had been reprinted for decades, and story papers like this one, cheap weeklies of serialized fiction for family readers, kept its melodrama in circulation. The page shows how a century-old novel could still reach urban readers through the popular press after the Civil War.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2004679701 |
| Genre | 1 print : line engraving. |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 1,065 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170807 |
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