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  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 7, 1905 Front page illustration "No Admittance" by W. A. Rogers; Scenes During the Visit of Secretary Taft and His Party to Japan; Winners in the Vanderbilt Elimination Trials; The Richest Man in the World; Snap-Shots at Africa's Big Game; Double page illustrations and Photos, The First Russian Fine Arts Exhibition in America; The... See More  

1806 New York Harbor Survey....

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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  

Irish Leader, John E. Redmond...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 10, 1904  Front page Photo, Henry James; The "Futurity," Run at the Meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay, August 27; With Admiral Togo on His Flagship, The "Mikasa," at the Japanese Naval Base, Near Port Arthur; The Latest Portrait of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Who is Now Visiting America; Dou... See More  

Racing at Saratoga...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 20, 1904 Front page illustration "Height of the Racing Season" by W. A. Rogers; The Latest Photograph of Mrs. Alton B. Parker; Snap-Shots of Scenes at the Opening of the Racing Season at Saratoga; Photographs of Irving Bacheller's Literary Workshop at Sound Beach, Connecticut; Double page Photo, Judge Parker Receiving the Formal No... 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  

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  

Life in Japan... Southern California...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, April 2, 1904 Frontpage illustration "The Performance Has Begun" by W. A. Rogers; Snap-Shots From the Scene of War; General Kuropatkin and Russian Artillery Officers in the Field; Every-Day Life in Japan--How the Children are Cared For; Multiple articles on the State of Southern California; Persons and Places of Importance in the Far Eastern Crisi... See More  

Niagara Falls...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 21, 1903  Frontpage illustration "Held Up the Wrong Man" by W. A. Rogers; Where a City Camps Out in Winter; A Vermont Marble Quarry; Recognition of the New Panama Republic; "The Birlds" of Aristophanes at America's Greek Theatre; Cross-Country Riding by Italian Officers; A Scientist's View of Niagara by John M. Clarke;a... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 7, 1903 Frontpage illustration "I Come to Buy, Not to Beg, Sir" by W. A. Rogers; Article, Canada and the Alaska Boundary Award; Photo, The Training of Italian Cavalry Officers; Trial Trip of the Submarine "Protector"; Unveiling the New Sherman Statue in Washington; "Alexander's Painting of Dr. Francis L. Patton"; a... See More  

Golfing...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 29, 1903 Frontpage illustration of The Statue of Liberty; Photo, The Great Naval Parade Off Oyster Bay; The Intercollegiate Golf Matches; "Championship Diving at Highgate, England"; River-Diving in Maine---Down Stream on the Trunk of a Tree; Sculpture at the World's Fair--Mr. Bela L. Pratt's "Light and Darkness"; Doub... 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  

Union Officers Hanged 1862 Civil War...

BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD, MA and dated January 11, 1862. This 4 page issue is in somewhat damaged condition with irregular spine with some text loss and some margin tears. This issue is loaded with advertisements and Civil War reports throughout from the day it was first reported which includes reports: "THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR" "20,000 Of Our Paroled Prisoners Restored to Active Service" "Te

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1863 Civil War...

BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT from Boston Massachusetts and dated August 31, 1863. This 4 page newspaper is in nice condition due to the use of cotton and rag paper during this very historic time in U.S. history. This issue is loaded with advertisements and Civil War reports throughout from the day it was first reported which includes reports on:  White Sulpher Springs, West Virgi... See More  

1822 James Monroe Act...

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, April 24, 1822. On the front page under a woodcut of an eagle and shield is An Act to authorize the State of Illinois to open a canal through the public lands to connect the Illinois River with Lake Michigan, signed in type: James Monroe. Also two other acts and a resolution signed in type by Monroe as well. Other news of the day includes: "North West Coast" "Reduc... See More  

Gleason's Monthly Companion magazines with wrappers...

Here is a collection of seven issues of GLEASON'S MONTHLY COMPANION magazine, Boston, all dated from 1874-1875, six of which still have the original pink or yellow outer wrappers (rarely found as such) with the remaining issue having the outer wrappers lacking. All issues have some edge wear as is typical, and all issues contain about 50 pages. A nice group of never-bound magazines. Each measu... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 14, 1903  Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, XXVII - Peter Cooper Hewitt;  John Hay and the New Treaty;  The Day Before Lent in New Orleans; By Balloon Over the Irish Sea; The New Passenger Station in Chicago; New Electric Locomotives; and other news and advertisements of the day. See photos for full details.... See More  

Ornate masthead takes over half of the front page...

DODGE'S LITERARY MUSEUM, Boston, April 30, 1853 See the photo below for one of the more detailed and certainly one of the largest masthead illustrations to be found. As the title suggests this 16 page issue has mostly literary content but there is some current news near the back, including "Santa Anna in Mexico". Measures about 10 1/2 by 14 inches, just a bit of light foxing, general... See More  

Earliest mention of William Henry Harrison we have found in a newspaper...

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Nov. 13, 1799  A page 2 report states: "Captain William Henry Harrison is chosen delegate to Congress, from the North Western Territory. Capt. H. is a very respectable gentleman, and of course, a friend to government."

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Nice front page print of Owego, New York...

GLEASON'S PICTORIAL LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP, Boston, Sept. 24, 1859 See the photo for what has to be one of the more ornate & decorative front pages to be found from the 19th century--very displayable! The bottom of the front page has a nice print captioned "View Of The Town of Owego, New York" with a front page article on the town as well. You get the complete 8 page issue which has a few ot... See More  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 3, 1903 Frontpage photo Americans of To-Morrow, XXI.- George B. Cortelyou; fullpage illustration "The First State Dinner of the Season in the New White House"; Progress Under the Sea; The Future of Niagara; fullpage illustration "The New York Public Library - Astor, Tilden, and Lenox Foundations" by Pettit;  Automobile Trucks; ca... See More  

Yellowstone Expedition...

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, MA, Jan. 9, 1819 A pg. 2 report from "Kentucky" says that Col. Johnson is preparing two steam boats to ascend the Missouri in the spring, with troops and provisions to the Yellowstone River. Mentions that the expedition group is building a fort at Cow Island 400 miles above St. Louis, that the Indians exhibit a "hostile disposition" and that they cannot proceed withou... See More  

American exports...

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Feb. 1, 1812  Page 2 has a report made to Congress concerning "American Exports". Also a list of "Promotions and Appointments" in the "old establishment" of the United States Army. Occasional foxing. Untrimmed. 4 pages.