The Graphic: a Premier Illustrated Newspaper

This item is a collection of The Graphic’s weekly illustrated newspapers dating from July to December 1891. The weekly newspapers are bound together to create a large book, and to likely be stored as a volume. This copy of The graphic is located on the sixth floor of the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library in the Kislak Center.

Background

The Graphic was a weekly illustrated newspaper launched in London in 1869 by William Luson Thomas and his brother Lewis Samuel Thomas. Upon its launch, it became quite successful; it was a common rival newspaper for the Illustrated London News, which was founded in 1842, 27 years earlier and was the first weekly illustrated newspaper in the world.