undated
Folder 1
GUSN-370290
From "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion," page 329. M. M. Ballou, corner of Bromfield & Tremont Streets. S. E. Brown Sc. Woodcut. Unframed.
exterior views
forts
woodcuts (prints)
woodcuts (prints)
1 print : tinted; 9 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches
The materials in this collection were collected by Anne Booth in the 1970s to early 1980s, mostly purchased at Goodspeed's Book Shop and Haley & Steele.
GC012
Anne Booth graphic collection
2018
GC012.01.02
Gift
undated
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts) [harbor]
Brown, Samuel E., d. approximately 1860 (Copyist)
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 (Publisher)
woodcuts (prints)
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Item description from original donor.
Item
Folder 1
Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) was a Boston-based writer, editor, and publisher who co-founded "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" and was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe newspaper (predecessor to the Boston Globe).Samuel E. Brown (died circa 1860) was a Boston-based engraver active between 1840 and 1860. He had known partnerships in the following firms in Boston: Devereux & Brown (1842-44), Brown & Worcester (1846-47), Samuel E. Brown & Co. (1848), and Manning & Brown (1856).
https://bostonathenaeum.org/news/maturin-murray-ballou/
Brown, Samuel E. (1957). In G. C. Groce & D. H. Wallce (eds.), The New-York Historical Societys Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860 (p. 88). Yale University Press.
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