Jefferson Davis...

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 15, 1864  Although there is much Civil War reporting on the front page perhaps the most significant a brief item near the bottom of the back, headed: "Guerrillas at Work Again on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad" which reads: "A party of guerrillas captured the westward bound train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad last night, robbed the passenger... See More  

1874 Chicago, Illinois...

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Whipping Post in 1868....

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Liberty Dollar Coin 1842...

DOLLAR WEEKLY, New York, Oct. 8, 1842



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Has an engraving of a dollar coin in the masthead, the cost of an annual subscription. Back page has an engraving and caption: The Young Thief. A volume I issue (number 46). Some of the topics in this issue include: "The Prize Fighters", "Western Railroad", "Mr. Webster" "John Quincy Adams&quo... See More  

Columbus, Kentucky...

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Illustrated Circus advertisement...

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HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 16, 1905 Front page Story, The Hold Up, illustrated by Stanley Arthurs; "Brought Along by the Invitation Committee, All Dabbled Over With Flour" by Stanley Arthurs; Multiple Stories; "Not Coming Home This Christmas..." by Margaret Eckerson; Miss Virginia's Christmas, Written by Harriet Spofford; and other advertisements... See More  

Football... Horse Show...

Harper's Weekly, New York, November 18, 1905  Front page illustration "Behold Him Now" by W. A. Rogers; The Horse Show; Correctly Appointed Turn-Outs at the Horse Show Driven by Women; The Gentlemen's Pony and Steeplechase Races at "Graceland"; The Latest Type of Transatlantic Liner; Double page Photos, Some of the Principal Prize-Winning Entries in the Y... See More  

Tennis... Horseracing...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 1, 1905 Front page illustration "An Interrupted Tete-A-Tete" by W. A. Rogers; American Tennis-Players Who Will Compete for the Davis International Trophy in England; Snap-Shots of the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay; The First Photographs of Japanese Solkiers Held as Prisoners of War in Russia; and other advertisements of the day. See pho... See More  

Belmont Park... Yachting...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 20, 1905 Front page illustration "Up to the Governor" by W. A. Rogers; Scenes at the New York City Police Parade; Scenes at the Opening of "Belmont Park"; Yachts Entered for the Emperor Cup in he Transatlantic Race; The Opening of the Automobile Racing Season at Brighton Beach; Extracts form Adam's Diary by Mark Twain; and other adver... See More  

Belmont Park...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, April 29, 1905 Front page illustration "Nothing More to Lose" by W. A. Rogers; Snap-Shots Showing the Effects of Exploding Mines and Torpedoes Used in Modern Warfare; Riding to Hounds in Europe--Photographs of a Meet at Pau, France; Belmont Park, the Finest Race-Course in the World; Scenes and Incidents of the President's Western Trip; Port Arthur ... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York,  February 25, 1905  Front page illustration "Within the Constitution" by W. A. Rogers; Snap-Shots of Scenes at the Winter Quarters of the Russian Army at Mukden and Vladivostok; The New Statue of the Late Frances E. Willard, Unveiled in the Capitol at Washington of February 17; Double page Photo, Scene in the House of Representatives During t... See More  

Ice Yachting... Mark Twain Anecdote...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 4, 1905  Front page illustration "The Upheaval" by W. A. Rogers; Ice-Yachting and Skate-Sailing on the Shrewsbury River, in New Jersey; Match Games of "Curling" in and Around New York; The Automobile Show at the Madison Square Garden, New York; Plans for the New Terminal Station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-Second Stree... See More  

Flag-Ship 'Kearsarge'...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 30, 1904  Front page illustration "There's Life in the Old Man Yet" by W. A. Rogers; Views at Esopus--Snap-Shots Taken at Judge Parker's Estate on the Hudson; The Visit of the North Atlantic Squardron to Portugal--Snap-Shots of Scenes on the Flag-Ship "Kearsarge"; How The Japanese Care for Their Wounded--Views in the Field Hospit... See More  

New York City's Rapid Transit...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 12, 1904  Front page Photo, Marquis Hirobumi Ito; Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky, Commander of the Russian "Baltic Fleet Which Attacked the British Trawlers in the North Sea; Snap-Shots of Four Leading Players in the Football World--Captains at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia; Henry Watterson; Photos Taken at the Opening of New York's New Su... See More  

Flying Machine... Launching "Connecticut"...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 15, 1904  Front page illustration "The Lion-Tamer" by W. A. Rogers; Paul Morton, The New Secretary of the Navy; The Railroad Disaster at Knoxville, Tennessee, in Which More Than Fifty Lives Were Lost; Launching the "Connecticut," the Largest Battle-Ship in the United States Navy; Receiving Wireless Messages on Ship-Board 2000 Miles F... See More  

Chicago strike...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 27, 1904  Front page illustration "With All His Faults, We Love Him--Still" by W. A. Rogers; A Snap-Shot of Hon. William F. Sheehan, Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, and Hon. Martin Littleton, Who Delivered the Speech Nominating Judge Parker at St. Louis; Photos of the Recent Disastrous Wreck on the Denver and Rio G... See More  

Steeple-Chase...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 9, 1904  Front page illustration "A Critical Moment" by W. A. Rogers; An Incident of the Evacuation of Newchwang--Russians Removing Siege-Guns From the Manchurian Stronghold; A Recent Photograph of the Czar--Nicholas II. Holding A Review at the Navy-Yard, St. Petersburg; American Golfers in Britain by van Tassel Sutphen; Double page Photo, S... See More  

The New Coney Island...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 4, 1904  Front page illustration "Roosevelt Against the Field" by W. A. Rogers; The Japanese Advance in Korea--Troops Leaving Camp; A Detachment of Japanese Engineers Laying a Military Road in Korea; Double page Photo, A Meet of the Meadowbrook Foxhounds at Jericho, Long Island; The Polo Match Between Princeton and Squadron "A" at ... See More  

War content in Korea...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, April 16, 1904  Frontpage illustration "Surely Victorious" by W. A. Rogers; Photo of Russian Outposts in the Mountains of Northern Korea; The Work of Construction on the Trans-Siberian Line Around the Southern Shore of Lake Baikal; Doublepage Photo, The Red Cross in the Field--Caring for the wounded After the Engagement of February 25, Near Ping ... See More  

Fighting in Russia...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 26, 1904 Frontpage illustration "The Coming of Spring" by W. A. Rogers; Russian Troops in Manchuria on Their Way to the Front; St. Petersburg in War-Time--Troops Leaving for the Front; Doublepage illustration "A View of the Torpedo Attack Upon Russian War-Ships at Port Arthur" by Sydney Laurence; Doublepage Map, "The Scene of ... See More  

Russian Troops in Manchuria...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 5, 1904 Frontpage illustration "How Much Longer Will the Dragon Sleep?" by W. A. Rogers; Russian Troop-Horses Arriving at Newchwang, Manchuria, Over the Trans-Siberian Railroad; Russians Attending to Their Wounded in the Field; Officers and Crew of Japan's Armored Cruiser "Asana"; Russia's Protected Cruiser, The "Varia... See More  

Chicago Theatre Fire...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 9, 1904  Frontpage illustration "Mr. Hearst's Boom" by W. A. Rogers; Photo, W. H. Taft, Next Secretary of War; A New Invention for Perfecting X-Ray Photography; Chicago's Theatre Fire, The Stage of the Theatre in Ruins; Scenes at the Iroquois Theatre Fire and other advertisements of the day.

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HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 24, 1903 Frontpage illustration "The Slough of Despond" by W. A. Rogers; Photo, A Fox-Hunting Episode; Incidents of the Recent Storm in New York; A Successful English Air-Ship; An Oil-Well on Fire in the New Texas Oil-Fields; Doublepage, photos, The Storm Centre in the Balkans--Revolutionists Preparing for War; "Tammany Waiting for th... See More  

Polo...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 1, 1903  Frontpage illustration of The Statue of Liberty; Photos The Expert Horsemanship of the American Woman; The Acting Pope During the Interregnum; Article, The Pope as a Politician by Sydney Brooks; The Launching of the "Ersatz Kaiser" at Kiel; "James M'neill Whistler" by Frederick Deppel; Doublepage illustration &q... See More