Building Ten Torpedo-Boats in 15 weeks...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 31, 1906  Front page illustration "They Seem to Pull Well Together" by W. A. Rogers; "The Panama Canal as a Benefit to American Commerce" by Henry Harrison Lewis; "Building Ten Torpedo-Boats in Fifteen Weeks" by Henry Townsend; photos of "Persons in the Day's News" including Miss Sus... See More  

Mark Twain Receives Laurel Wreath from Society of American Illustrators....

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 6, 1906  Front page illustration "The Quarrel of the Guides" by W. A. Rogers; "A Powerful New Weapon for the Navy," by Walter L. Beasley; Photos of  "The Recent Disaster at Charing Cross Station, London" and "Events in the Russian Crisis." Full page photo of  "Mark Twain Receiving a L... See More  

Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnapping....

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Last Days of the Civil War....

NEW YORK HERALD, June 5, 1865  The front page has: "THE ARMIES", "Congratulatory Address of General Grant to the Armies" signed in type: U.S. Grant; "The Work of Mustering Out Continued" & more. Good content inside including: "THE TRIAL" of the Lincoln murder conspirators; "The South" "A Large emigration to the State Desirable&qu... See More  

LIBERTY magazine, New York, January 27, 1940.

   

* Ice Skating cover

* Clark Gable

* The Dionne Quintuplets

* Boxing

* Colored Ads



The color cover of this issue has a very nice print of a young lady ice skating (see photos... See More  

Panama Canal... Football...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, December 9, 1905  Front page illustration "Still One Left" by W. A. Rogers; The Canal Will Be Built; Mishaps Incident to the Panama Canal Work; Double page illustration "Bird's-Eye View of the Completed Panama Canal Constructed on the Lock Principle Approved by President Roosevelt; The Defeat of Harvard Which Gave Yale the Football Championshi... See More  

Football... Aeroplane...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 11, 1905  Front page illustration "The Canal Will be Dug" by W. A. Rogers; The Trial Flight of the Ludlow Man-Carrying Aeroplane in New York; Two Noteworthy European Events of the Week; Double page Photos, Three of the Season's Big Football Games, Showing the New Tactics; and other advertisements of the day. See photos for full ... See More  

Motor Boat Racing...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 16, 1905  Front page illustration "Uncle Sam's Best Summer Girls" by W. A. Rogers; A Legacy of the War; Motor-Boat Racing on the St. Lawrence; Double page illustration "Plans for Improving And Beautifying New York" by H. M. Pettit; A Recent Photograph of Viola Allen and Clyde Fitch; and other advertisements of the day... See More  

Intercollegiate Boat Races...

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HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 21, 1905.  Front page illustration "Follow the Leader" by W. A. Rogers; The Latest Photo of General Kuropatkin and His Officers at Russian Headquarters in Manchuria; E. A. Abby's New Panel, Painted for the Royal Exchange, London; The Effect of a Cold Wave at Niagara--A Winter Scene Near the Falls; Photos of Scenes at the War Manoeuvres at ... 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  

Japanese Artillery...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 14, 1904 Frontpage illustration "Looking On" by W. A. Rogers; Photo of Japanese Firing-Line in a Skirmish Near the Yalu; Russian Troops in the Far East--Infantry Parading at Blagovestchensk; Doublepage Photo, Japanese Artillery in Action During a Skirmish in Northern Korea; Mark Twain's Six Funniest Books and other advertisements of the da... 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  

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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Yachting... Tennis...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 8, 1903 Frontpage illustration of The Statue of Liberty; Photos This Week's International Tennis Matches; The "Kanawha" Wins the International Cup for Steam-Yachts; illustration "Transforming the Metropolitan Opera House, New York" by Vernon Howe Bailey; "A Hundred-Foot Dive in Army Practice"; Doublepage illustration... See More  

Pope Leo XIII...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 25, 1903 Frontpage illustration "Pope Leo XIII." by Henry McCarter; illustration "Pope Leo XIII." by Laszlo; "The Pope is Dead!"; Leo XIII. 1810-1903" by Sydney Adams; "The Strenuous Summer Life at Oyster Bay" by George Gibbs; "W. E. Henley"; "Plan for Municipal and Terminal Buildings at City ... See More  

Pittsburgh...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 23, 1903  Frontpage illustration "Our New American Citizens" by G. W. Peters; The Passing of Gibraltar; "Making the Weather Forecast at Washington" by Sydney Adamson; "'Tap-Day' At Yale" by The Kinneys; Pittsburgh, the Giant Industrial City of the World; Doublepage illustration "The Song Without Words&quo... See More  

Mark Twain Content....

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 2, 1903  Frontpage Photo of Rudolph Keppler; Experiments with Lightning; Photos The Situation in Macedonia; Doublepage illustration "A Hold-up in Central Park" by Max F. Klepper; Why Not Abolish It? written by Mark Twain; other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details. ... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 21, 1903  Front page illustration Henrik Ibsen; Humor and Life in La Guayra; Wireless Telegraphy in the Next War; The Stanford Memorial Church; "Binding the Bargain"; The New Hotel for Women in New York ("Martha Washington"); Domestic Relations of Automobiles; and other news and advertisements of the day.

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HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 28, 1903 Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow XXVII. - Finley Peter Dunne; The Election of New Cardinals; Underground Moving Sidewalks in New York; Sven Hedin's Exploration; The Marine Band at the White House; and other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details.... See More  

Nice report on Supreme Court ruling...

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL,  June 4, 1946, Topeka Kansas.  This issue contains the following 6 column front page headline: "NAVY ASKS INACTIVES VOLUNTEER".  This issue also contains the following front page coverage: "High Court Gives Press Wide Latitude", "Dr. C.L. Hovgard, Church Leader, Dies", "Plans Possible Duty in Event of Maritime Strike", and much more!  This is the ... 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  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 11, 1902 Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, Lewis B. Stillwell; Pennsylvania Coal-Strikers with photos; Secretary Hay's Note and the Jewish Question with photos; fullpage photo Emile Zola; fullpage illustration "Freighting in the Desert" by Dixon; Our First Annual Military Manoeuvres with photos; The Taking of the Cotton Crop in the So... See More  

Mark Twain...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 6, 1902 Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, Cornelius Vanderbilt, The President in New England with photos; Mark Twain in His Country Home with photos; Marksmanship in the Army with photos; The Great Dam Across the Nile; color doublepage centerfold "The Blacksmith's Noon Hour" by Ranson; and other news and advertisements of the day. S... See More  

Oliver Wendell Holmes...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 23, 1902  Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, George Grey Barnard; fullpage photo New Justice of the Supreme Court - Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Colombian Revolution; The American Farmer; fullpage photo An Oil-Gusher on Fire; Automobiling; and other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details.