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Decorative title page for the December 20, 1856 issue of Ballou's Pictorial.

Originally called, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, this publication was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. The Pictorial featured a number of famous artists, including Winslow Homer.