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  

Mark Twain as Satan...

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Mark Twain... Inauguration Day... NY Railway Strike...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 18, 1905  Front page illustration "A Growing Menace" By W. A. Rogers; Photos of New York's Railway Strike; From My Unpublished Autobiography, by Mark Twain; Two Photos of Mark Twain, one from 1875 and one from 1905; "Mrs. Humphry Ward" by Albert Sterner; Double page Photos, The President and Inauguration-Day Ceremonie... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 14, 1905, Front page Photo, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Next Ambassador to the Court of St. James; The Surrender of Port Arthur; Snap-Shots Taken Before Port Arthur--Incidents of the Japanese Siege; The New Method of Training the Norwegian Army for Winter Service; The Feature of Chicago's New Subway--Important Business Houses Connected Directly with the Subw... See More  

Christmas issue... Mark Twain story...

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Yale-Princeton...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 26, 1904 Front page Photo, General Nogi, The Japanese Commander, Studying a War Map at His Headquarters Before Port Arthur; The Statue of Frederick the Great, Presented to America by Emperor William, and Unveiled at Washington, November 19; The First Photos Taken of Scenes in and Around Port Arthur During the Present Siege; Double page Photo, The End of... See More  

John D. Rockfeller...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 22, 1904  Front page illustration "Uncle Sam. "Enough Head-Lines--Produce the Evidence!" by W. A. Rogers; John D. Rockefeller, The Richest Man in the World; Ceremonies at the Notification of Frank W. Higgins, Republican Candidate for Governor of New York, With Photographs Taken at His Home; How Russia Treats Her Prisoners--Scenes in the R... See More  

Racing at Saratoga...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 3, 1904 Front page illustration "A Vision of November 8" by W. A. Rogers; A New Portrait of Mark Twain, Painted by the Italian Artist E. Gelli, to be Exhibited at the World's Fair at St. Louis; The End of the Racing Season at Saratoga--Snap-Shots of Scenes and Incidents; Secretary Taft, Members of the Philippine Commission, and Invit... See More  

Republican Convention... Rowing Regatta...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 16, 1904  Front page illustration "The "Trust-Busters" at Work" by W. A. Rogers; Senator Fairbanks Opening the Republican Campaign in Indiana; Germany and the Far-Eastern Situation--Prince Adalbert Reviewing the Kaiser's Troops at Tientsin; INt Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta at Poughkeepsie--Syracuse Winning the Four-Mile '... See More  

Horseracing...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 11, 1904  Front page illustration "He Wants Them Both" by W. A. Rogers; Japanese Troops Leaving the Shanagawa Railroad Station for the Front; The Eighteenth Brooklyn Handicap, Run at Gravesend, Long Island, May 26; Alton Brooks Parker; With the Japanese Troops--Snap-Shots Taken in the Field; President Clarence H. Mackay and His Lieutenan... 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  

Smithsonian Institute Founder Honored...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 27, 1904  Frontpage illustration "Hold Fast, Uncle Sam!" by W. A. Rogers; A View of One of Russia's Sea-Ports in Manchuria; Russian Troops on Their Way to the Front; Marcus A. Hanna; The War in the East--Snap-Shots Taken at the Scene of Action; Honoring the Founder of the Smithsonian Institution; Ad, Mark Twain's Six Funniest Boo... See More  

Calvary in Italy...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 6, 1904 Frontpage illustration "The Dog in the Manger" by W. A. Rogers; Edward Everett Hale, New Chaplain of the Senate; Pictures at the Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Rough-Riding in Italy--A Cavalry Drill Near Rome and other advertisements of the day. The issue is complete in 12-16 pages, in go... 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, December 5, 1903  Frontpage Photo, General Leonard Wood; Emperor William on Board His Yacht, The "Hohenzollern"; Doublepage illustration "A Flying Leap--Will He Make It?" by W. A. Rogers; The Invention of Smokeless Powder; My Discovery of the Mississippi by Julius Chambers; and other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for fu... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 14, 1903, Frontpage illustration "Congress on His Hands" by W. A. Rogers; "The Special Session of Congress--Meeting of the President's Cabinet" by Mears; A Notable Statue for St. Louis; A Snap Shot of the President at Chevy Chase, Washington; Doublepage photo, The Special Session of Congress--Scene on the Steps of the C... See More  

Pope Pius X...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 15, 1903 Frontpage illustration of The Statue of Liberty; Photo At Full Gallop on the Road to Ardsley; The New Model-Room, Where Artists Sketch Animals From Life, At the Bronx "Zoo," New York;  "The New Pope, Pius X."; The Plan of the New and Proposed Buildings at Yale; Photo Mr. Alexander Winton and His New Racing-Car; Doubl... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 4, 1903 Frontpage illustration of the Statue of Liberty; "A Newly Discovered Portrait of Washington" by John Trumbull; Photo of "Reliance,"  "Constitution," and "Columbia" Crossing the Line; Looping the Loop in an Automobile; Decorative Art at the World's Fair; Doublepage illustration "The Day We Celebra... See More  

Yachting...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 6, 1903 Frontpgae illustration "Discussing the Yacht Races; Defending the Panama Canal; The Fight for an Open Port; The President in the West; Doublepage illustration "What She Didn't Declare" by James Montgomery Flagg; other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details.

"The Wizard of Oz"...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 7, 1903 Frontpage illustration William the Teuton; The Outlook for Coal (with Clarence Darrow as the attorney); Roosevelt and Cleveland; "The Wizard of Oz"; and other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details.

Handsome masthead from the year the American government was established...

THE DIARY; OR WOODFALL'S REGISTER, London, 1789 This is a nice folio-size newspaper of 4 pages with untrimmed margins (uncommon) and a nice red-inked tax stamp in the lower right corner of the front page or page 3. Various news of the day plus ads as well. This is one of the less common British titles in our inventory, never held by us in 30 years, outside of our recent purchase. Minimal fold ... See More  

Charles Dickens... Race Horse Cresceus...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 15, 1902 Frontpage photo Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; several pages of photos of Prince Henry's American Tour; full page photo Memorial Services for President McKinley; Cresceus's Wonderful Campaign; The Tammany Man; fullpage illustration "American Editors. XII.-Charles Emory Smith" by W.A. Rogers; fullpage photo The Railroad Nearest the No... See More  

Honoring Mark Twain...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 13, 1902  Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, Jacques Loeb; The "Iowa Idea"; The World's Greatest Gun; Walter Damrosch as Lecturer, Composer, and Conductor; fullpage illustration "In Honor of Mark Twain's Sixty-Seventh Birthday"; doublepage centerfold illustration "The Opening of the United States Senate; Proposed E... See More  

Mark Twain Content....

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 25, 1902  Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, Edmund Janes James; The President's Coal-Strike Arbitrators; fullpage illustration "The Break in the Coal Strike. - A Historic Moment" by Ranson; fullpage illustration "The Largest Electrical Power-House in the World" by Meeker; Princeton's New President and the Men of ... See More