Skip to main content
Home› Item #586387
LaFayette's celebrated return to the United States...
6 photographs · click to enlarge ⤢ Open zoom view

LaFayette's celebrated return to the United States...

Item # 586387 ·
Sorry, but this item is no longer available. Please be in touch at info@rarenewspapers.com if you would like to be placed on a want list or are interested in a potential alternate issue.

NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Nov. 6, 1824  All of pages 1 & 2 and a portion of pg. 3 are taken up with considerable detail on: "LaFayette's Visits to the United States". Further into the issue is another article: "Gen. La Fayette at the Tomb of Washington".
Other articles within include: "John Paul Jones" concerning the publication of a book on his life; "The West" which reports on the situation with Indians & Spaniards at Santa Fe & elsewhere. The back page has a report on: "Presidential Election" with votes by county in several states. It would be won by John Quincy Adams (see). 
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches, in great condition.

This small size newspaper began in 1811 and was a prime source for national political news of the first half of the 19th century. As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."

Category: Pre-Civil War
No Longer Available
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.