Frank Leslie
Frank Leslie ( born March 29, 1821 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England; † January 10, 1880 in New York City ), with former name Henry Carter, was an English engraver, illustrator and publisher of family periodicals.
The English origins
Frank Leslie was born on 29 March 1821 in Ipswich, the son of Joseph Carter, the owner of a successful glove factory. Frank Leslie grew up in Ipswich. As a boy he was on his way to school always at a silversmith's shop over; was awakened by the engraving to be considerable interest. In particular, the designs and letters excited Leslie attention. At the age of 13 he made his first wood engraving, the emblem of his hometown.
At 17 he was sent to London in the dry goods business of his uncle, to learn more about the business of his father. But every free moment he could snatch from the dreary drudgery at the desk of the dead wood he used for sketching, drawing or engraving. His father, uncles and relatives discouraged Leslie in his work so much that he decided to continue them in secret. He drove under the name Frank Leslie at sketches for the Illustrated London News, to ensure that he would remain anonymous and no one of his relatives mitbekäme that he continued his work. His sketches were so good that he gave up his profession at the age of 20 years and started as head of the engraving in the Illustrated London News. He made himself the expert and inventor in his new profession, he studied light and shadow effects in the image pressure should be used. The method is known today as the " superposition ".
Henry Carter married the first time in England and had three sons with his first wife: Harry, Alfred and Scipio. He changed his name in 1857 in Frank Leslie and broke up in 1860 by his wife.
The United States
In 1848 Frank Leslie in the United States, where for Gleason 's Pictorial, he worked in Boston in 1852. He discovered that you could speed up the engraving process by aufteilte a drawing in many small blocks and divided the work among several engravers. A work in a large format, one-month would have cost a Holzgraveur work around could be done in a day of 30 engravers. In 1853 Leslie to New York City to produce woodcuts for PT Barnum's Illustraded News. After the company went bankrupt, Leslie started so to publish one of his first magazine: Leslie's Ladies'Gazette of Fashion and Fancy Needlework. He used woodcuts by Leslie & Hooper, a partner from whom he separated in 1854. This was followed by yet ( called Leslie 's Weekly ) Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ', The Boy's and Girl 's Weekly, The Budget of Fun and many more. Leslie's Week was even published until 1922. Leslie's Illustrations of the American Civil War are highly valued today for their historic value. He was a member of the Commission of the Paris World Fair of 1867, where he received an award for his artistic works.
The second wife
As the editor of Frank Leslie 's Lady Magazine was ill, Miriam Folline Squier filled in for him and the sick editor still got his salary paid. As the editor, died Squier shortly afterwards assumed his position. You and Leslie got married. It was his second and her third marriage. In their summer cottage, Interlaken in Saratoga Springs, New York, she received many celebrities. In 1877 they undertook together with many friends a trip from New York to San Francisco. The book From Gotham to the Golden Gate by Miriam Leslie describes exactly this journey. The cost of this trip and a financial crisis led to a strong debt Leslie and his companies. When Frank Leslie died in 1880, his debts amounted to approximately $ 300,000. His wife took over the business and brought it back on track; This went so far that she let her name in Frank Leslie's change in June 1881. She was a prominent feminist and author. She and her husband are at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx buried.