On Temporary Display "General Grant in Florida – A Trip on the Oklawaha – From a sketch by Frank Taylor," Harper's Weekly, February 14, 1880. “The Printed Florida: Illustrated Newspaper Images, 1860-1900” October 26, 2003 – April 30, 2004 During the late 1850s, Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper emerged as leading publishers in American journalism. Specializing in descriptive illustrations and lively stories, these newspapers targeted a growing class of middle-income Americans, eager for information about their rapidly expanding nation. A selection of 25 original prints from the museum's collection of the two publications will be on display through April, showing Florida through the eyes of the traveling artists that documented its early growth and post Civil War reconstruction.

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