Edward S. Hall was born in England
about the year 1840. Little is known of his life, but by 1860 he was a resident
of New York and established as a book illustrator, having provided the
illustrations for James Brady’s A Christmas
Dream (New York, 1860). In 1861 he worked for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper and was sent to Baltimore, MD
with Francis B. Schell to cover the Baltimore riots. Throughout the spring and
summer of 1862 he covered the war in Virginia. Leslie’s published twenty-two of his drawings from this
period. The Becker Collection
contains drawings Hall made in Maryland in 1861. [biographical entry by
Kristina Wilson]
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