upstate visitor ellen leonard described in her 1867 harper's monthly article called three days of terror: an account of the time she spent in an upper floor apartment on a nearby cross street between first and second avenues, quote, on the very edge of one of the affected districts, unquote. the illustrations of the riot crowd itself may have conveyed more evidence to alert contemporary readers than is immediately apparent. the visual markers of ethnicity were ubiquitous in the riot pictures. the pictorial -- of irish catholicism have been brought to readerses after three decades of cartoons, prints, reform tracks and city views. but finer distinctions of class position within the ethnicity could also be found in some of the illustrated press coverage in keeping with a convention that would characterize the practice of the illustrated press for some 30 years, these visual distinctions were not necessarily noted in the textual descriptions that accompanied the engravings. their appearance spoke for themselves. among the new york pictorial papers, the new york illustrated news published th