In 1853, he arrived in New York City to engrave woodcuts for P. T. Barnum's short-lived "Illustrated News". After its failure, he began publishing the first of his many illustrated journalistic ventures, "Frank Leslie's Ladies' Gazette of Fashion and Fancy Needlework", with good woodcuts by Leslie & Hooper, a partnership which dissolved in 1854. "The New York Journal" soon followed, with "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" (1855) (called "Leslie's Weekly"), "The Boy's and Girl's Weekly", "The Budget of Fun", and many others. "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper", which included news as well as fiction, survived until 1922.