1874 Harper's Weekly Periodic News Paper Complete
Harper's Weekly was a weekly magazine or newspaper that covered many different subjects. Such as politics, presidents, foreign news, law, nature, religious intelligence, domestic intelligence, Humor of the day, the law and the lady, and life. And like all magazines, there was the advertising. This Advertising also gives an inside to the media, the culture at the time, and valuable insight how and whom effected a large part of history, if not some heritage. What is remarkable about Harper's Weekly, every weekly issue contains a very large print. Such as fig. f. and fig. i. below. Size is typically 18"x13" in size with white borders. The prints are are beautiful and wonderful to look at. This prints are set in the book in such a way that they were not damaged by the binding process. These prints could easily be framed and displayed. Book is unique-(despite the obvious) many people have relatives that were listed in Harper's Weekly. I could not think of something so worthy to a family genealogy, then relatives in the Harper's Weekly of 1874. Scrap booking at its finest. Someone at one time had taken the time and extra care for all the 1874 deliveries and had them bound in one book.
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fig. a. The maple leaf base-ball club, heaping and counting oysters,
drilling the pearls, curiosities of animals, Pearl fishing at Ceylon
fig. b. Hare and Hounds-Game played at most English schools
fig. c. Christmas Eve-Santa Claus waiting for the children to get to seep by Th
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fig. d. Indecision-artist unknown, Shooting Alligators on the upper St. Johns, Florida
by Abbey, The Cincinnati Exposition-Horticultural Department by William R. M'Comas
fig. e. The Christmas Dinner Safe "Done Cotch Him!" by W.L. Sheppard
fig. f. The Game of Polo by W.S.
fig. g. "Obey the Law of Necessity" by Castelar?
fig. h. The same old pirate afloat again. by TH Nast.
fig. i. May-Day in "Merrie England"-Engraved from a picture by C.J. Staniland
fig. j. The strike in the coal mine-Meeting of "Molly McGuire" Men by Frenzeny and
Tavernier.
fig. k. Mill River Calamity-Bird's eye view of the devastated valley by Theo. R.
Davis
Most notable in Harper's Weekly was the wood cut photographs. Wood cut photographs were made by painstakingly carving pieces of wood until it resembled the subject at hand. I should not say carved, but the making of thousands of lines cut into the wood to make up the image. Once the wood was carved, they used the pieces of wood for the press on printing the pictures. Some of the 1874 pictures sell for hundreds of dollars. Price per issue at the time of 1874 was ten cents.
Book condition:
Book cover is in good condition. The binding appearance looks weak. Printed on the side reads Harper's Weekly 1874 in gold. Leather bound hard cover. 50% of binding cover is missing, but book is very much bound and is very secure with holding the pages firmly in place. Book size is 16"x11.5"2.5" inches. Inside cover reads Charles Baxter Red Wing Minnesota. He is the recipient of all articles and bears his name on every weekly article, but is written in pencil and can be erased. Book contains 1084 pages all in numerical order. First few pages are in the poorest conditions, (to give an idea, fig c. is the very first page) then getting better in the two or three pages. First few pages have a few small tears and is separating from the binding and few very small bends in the upper right corners. There is two pages that have a tear, one page 75% torn out, and one with 1/4 of the page missing or torn out. The rest of the pages are in excellent condition with slight yellowing due to age. A couple pages contain a little horticulture-someone left some some leaves to be flattened. Some staining as a result, but nothing on the subject matter or text.
Some of the subjects:
Interesting to find detailed maps of the US stating where gold could be found in the Black Hills, Colorado, and California. Politics at the time and fourth amendment rights. How much clash and struggle was given for our freedoms. Devastations and disasters of communities-there was a detailed map of a fire in Chicago displaying the damage done to buildings. Satire and insight into the black communities at the time. Foreign affairs and marriages of noble men. The Death of significant people of the time. Thousands of detailed pictures that help explain the story. This is quite small example to the actual content that is bound in one book.