St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 1,078 pictures

St. Nicholas was an illustrated children's magazine serial published in New York by Scribner & Co. from 1873, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and aimed at young readers. The pictures include a rowed line of boys and men in outdoor dress photographed for a Thanksgiving article, a group of uniformed boys pointing across a wooded slope, a pen-and-ink street scene outside an oyster saloon with top-hatted men, and a studio portrait of a young woman reading in profile. A designer might take from them the mix of halftone photography and loose pen sketching typical of late nineteenth-century magazine pages, with strong dark figure groupings and simple outdoor settings.

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