PopKulture's photos with the keyword: illustrated

The undulating masthead for the Kentucky Stock Farm paper published in Lexington, Kentucky, 1893.

Pleasing masthead for the Pictorial War Record Weekly, published in New York, 1882.

A rather ornate masthead for the Northwestern Lumberman magazine published in Chicago, Illinois, 1879.

Many of the nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers sported highly-detailed and wonderfully engraved mastheads as evidenced by this issue of Ballou's Pictorial dated December 15, 1855.

A popular illustrated children's newspaper of the day, Our Young People, like many periodicals of the era, sports a splendid masthead. June 26, 1895 issue.

The Golden Argosy was an illustrated newspaper that soon morphed into the dime novel, The Argosy, and eventually the long-running pulp magazine, Argosy. March 17, 1888 issue.

As storied and entrenched in history firma as the Civil War now stands, it's hard to believe it was ever just "happening." Somehow, these epochal events seem now so compartmentalized that it's difficult to imagine what it must have been like as they were unfolding, as everyday news, trickling down to the masses in a secondhand manner. No radio, no television, certainly no internet, and many Americans too poor or illiterate to lay witness to the tales of the day. Instead, word-of-mouth accounts, hearsay, or public readings from newspapers kept a populace appraised of the daily mire; accounts, mind you, which relied heavily on weary carriers or the sporadic telegram, and as such lagged days - if not weeks - and often well after the dust had settled and history had turned, as it did so often on the whim of the weather or the resolve of a beleaguered brigade or two. The American well-to-do followed events in lavishly illustrated newspaper magazines like the one pictured above, bearing a date one hundred fifty years to the day. While the battles at Gettysburg and Antietam justly echo in the annals of our history, the gallant exploits of Captain William E. Strong of the Second Wisconsin Volunteers survive only in obscurity - surviving in great part to the coverage afforded here, in the September 28, 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly.

Can you imagine an era when almost everything you picked up was hand-rendered and glorious? Just for beauty's sake? Not only is this magazine noteworthy for its wonderfully ornate cover, but the interior ads feature a plethora of interesting implements and endless oddities - all made in America, of course. Ahhh, the good ol' days. American Agriculturalist - November 1878 issue.

Phrenological Journal - January 1878 issue.

Lippincott's Magazine - September 1881 issue.

Wide Awake - June 1884 issue.

If your friends start snooping around your skull too much, they may have rediscovered phrenology, that archaic "science" of discerning one's personality and character from the shape of their head. The Phrenological Journal of Science and Health - April 1891 issue.

The ornamentation on this March 1871 issue of Our Young Folks - An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls is reaching a critical level - definite affirmation of its Victorian pedigree!

First issue of Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers from January 1850.