Stock Market... Cocking's Parachute... Steam-Plows...
Item #172082
September 12, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 12, 1857 Featured is a fine, front page print plus an article on: "The New York Stock Board In Session", an early graphic on the Stock Exchange.
Prints within include: "Barth's Travels in North and Central Africa" features 6 prints; "Flirtation at Newport" article features eight small prints; "Dr. Douglass,Home ... See More
Dr. Livingstone... What a Jew may do...
Item #172078
August 29, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 29, 1857 The front page features a print of: "Broadway, Opposite the St. Nicholas at Four of the Afternoon" which is somewhat cartoonish.
Prints within include: "Travel Notes in Bible Lands" with prints of: "Sidon" and "Grave-Yard"; "Our Watering-Place Correspondence" features several small prints; "... See More
Bathing at Newport...
Item #172074
August 15, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 15, 1857 The front page features and article and illustration of "The King of Delhi". Prints within include: "Travel Note of Bible Lands" which includes an print of: "Haifa and Mount Carmel" and "The Monks of Mount Carmel"; a half-page print of "The William and Ann, in which General Wolfe sailed to Quebec in 1... See More
Five Winslow Homer prints...
Item #172070
August 01, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 1, 1857 The front page has illustrations of: "Tomb of Joseph (at Shechem)" and "Approach to Samaria" with an article: 'Travel Notes in Bible Lands'.
The double page centerfold is taken up with five prints by famed artist Winslow Homer: "The Match Between Sophs and Freshman -The Opening" "Freshmen" &qu... See More
Very early prints of Cincinnati and St. Louis...
Item #172062
July 04, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 4, 1857 The front page features an article: "Travel Noted In Bible Lands" with a half page print: "Keeping the Fourth on Holy Ground".
Inside has a print: "Henry Clay Column to be Raised at Lexington, Kentucky"; an article on "How To Spend The Fourth" with several small prints; a one-quarter page view of "... See More
Louisville, Kentucky... Jamestown prints...
Item #172060
June 27, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 27, 1857 The front page features: "Travel Notes in Bible Lands" with an illustration of "Bethany' in Palestine. Inside has a nice & early quarter-page print of the "City of Louisville, Kentucky, with a related article. Also a quarter page print: "St. Luke's Home for Indigent Females"
"The Jamestown Cele... See More
On Dred Scott... Rothschild Family...
Item #172040
April 18, 1857
HARPER'S WEEKLY, April 18, 1857 There were relatively few illustrations within the early issues (this is vol. 1 #16), but it includes an article headed: "Dred Scott in the Legislature" concerning the objections of the New York Legislature to the Dred Scott decision and their actions.
Also inside is a nearly quarter-page illustration of: "John A. King, Governor... See More
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