Christmas Harper's Weekly in 1864....
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December 31, 1864
HARPERS WEEKLY, N.Y., Dec. 31, 1864.
* Harper's Weekly Christmas
* Abraham Lincoln centerfold
Full front page shows children in a bedroom playing with Christmas gifts and toys, while the parents watch from the doorway. Very ornate tipped-in dblpgctrfld. by Thomas Nast: The Union Christmas Dinner. Shows President Lincoln welcoming Confederates to dinner, with a long table in the background and empty chairs with the abbreviations of the Confederate states on the backs of the chairs. Smaller Civil War-related vignettes in each corner of the print. Other war prints throughout. 16 pages in good condition.
* Harper's Weekly Christmas
* Abraham Lincoln centerfold
Full front page shows children in a bedroom playing with Christmas gifts and toys, while the parents watch from the doorway. Very ornate tipped-in dblpgctrfld. by Thomas Nast: The Union Christmas Dinner. Shows President Lincoln welcoming Confederates to dinner, with a long table in the background and empty chairs with the abbreviations of the Confederate states on the backs of the chairs. Smaller Civil War-related vignettes in each corner of the print. Other war prints throughout. 16 pages in good condition.
Category: 1861-1865
