Historic Newspapers: Crime-Outlaws-Gunfights-Mobsters-Gangsters

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 26, 1902 Frontpage photo England's New Prime Minister Arthur Balfour; fullpage photos The Amateur Soldier in the Field; fullpage photos The United States and the Pope in the Philippines; fullpage photos The Matinee Club; fullpage illustration The Dumas Centenary; The Roof Garden: Its Function and Its... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 12, 1902 Frontpage photo "Down South"; The Wheat Crop of 1902 with photos; fullpage photos John Kendrick Bangs at Home; In the Adirondacks; fullpage photo Driving Home the Cows; The Last Cable Laid (Brooklyn Bridge); fullpage photo Mrs.... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 28, 1902  The full ftpg. is a print of; "American Manners & Customers--scene on the New York pier upon the arrival of an ocean liner." Inside has 2 pgs. with 8 photos of the "Yale - Harvard Rowing" teams; 4 pages of photos on: "The Coronation of Edward VII"; nearly 7 pages... Read full description  

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, April 9, 1902

* Will Reynolds mass murder killings
* Colbert County law enforcement officers
* Negro lynching - burning

The front page has a one column heading: "Negro Burned To Death After Killing Five Men" (see) Also another related report on page 2 with heading: "NEGRO AROUSED A... Read full description  

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 7, 1902

* Maxon Station , Brewster County, Texas
* Southern Pacific Railroad train wreck disaster

The top of the front page has a two column headline: "MANY LIVES LOST IN TRAIN WRECK" with subhead. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Jan. 4, 1902 Frontpage photo "A Memory of Emancipation Day"; Ice Hocky and Its Players; a colored print "Jan Kubelik - The Bohemian Violinist Now Touring The United States"; a page of photos of Marconi's Latest Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy; a page of photos Winners at the First annual Sow of... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 16, 1901 The Rehabilitation of New York; Election Night in New York; fullpage photos "A New Implement of Warfare - The Pneumatic Aerial Torpedo"; Li Hung-Chang; fullpage illustration "View of Upper Manhattan from Top Story of the Highest Apartment House in the World"; fullpage photos... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 19, 1901 Fullpage "Old and New - The Two Bridges Connecting New York and Brooklyn"; Munich's New Theatre; doublepage centerfold "Mud-Hen Shooting" by Frost; Football - The Season of 1901; fullpage "Pictorial Notes of Current News"; and other news of the day. See photos for full... Read full description  

Louisiana Purchase Exposition...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 14, 1901 Front page illustration William McKinley; The Shooting of the President; How New York Received the News; St. Louis - "Most American of American Cities"; The Louisiana Exposition with photos of personnel; The Automobile Races at Newport; fullpage color ad Ralston Purina Cereals; and other... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, August 17, 1901, from New York. fullpage "Tantalus-in-Town" poem and drawings by Louis Akin; fullpage illustration "Music at Marine Park, Boston" by Toaspern; House-Boat Life in the United States; doublepage centerfold photos "Fifth Avenue, as... Read full description  

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Aug. 6, 1901

* 1901 Selby Smelting Works heist
* 900 pound of gold bullion robbery
* Contra Costra County, California

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "GIGANTIC ROBBERY" with subheads. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 27, 1901

Front page photo of the construction of the East River Bridge, New York; full page illustration "A Flurry in Wall Street" by Lawrence; Naval Manoeuvres at Nantucket; The Last Rush for Homes in Oklahoma; full page "The International Cup Races" by Wright; Reporting a Cosmopolitan War on the Way to the... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 6, 1901 The Sad Story of Philadelphia; The Disaster in West Virginia;  doublepage centerfold "Trout-Fishing in the North Woods" by Frost; The Woman's National Tennis Championship at Philadelphia; and other news of the day. See photos for full details.

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 25, 1901 Frontpage Uncle Sam cartoon "Establishing 'A Community of Interest'" by Rogers; "At the Riding Academy"; The War on the Northern Pacific; The President in the Southwest; The American Steel Industry; The Cuban Situation; fullpage "The Grill-Room in the New... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 9, 1901  This issue is printed in blue and orange ink. Full page illustration of President William McKinley by Hitchcock; Swearing in the Vice-President; The Record of the Administration with illustrations; The Cuban Situation; full page illustration "The Illumination on the Night of the... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 23, 1901  Front page illustration "George Washington To His Namesake" by Rogers;  "Winter in Quebec" by Lawrence; The Philippine Problem; The Funeral of Queen Victoria; Old Clubs of Quebec; doublepage centerfold "The Battle of Buena Vista - February 23, 1847"... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, January 19, 1901  Fullpage illustration Cavalrymen Rounding Up Poachers in Yellowstone Park; Frontpage illustration of the Subway Construction in New York at Union Square; The Nicaragua Canal Treaty; American Troops in China; fullpage illustration "The Goose Cow - A Nebraska Method of Stalking Wild Geese" by Clarke;... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 24, 1900  A Century of Achievement - Music by Philip Hale; Count von Waldersee at Tientsin; fullpage illustration "Unbridled Bits From The Horse Show"; The Close of the Football Season; doublepage centerfold "Four-in-Hand-Driving... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 13, 1900, Colored front page of Richard Croker;  The Cost of Tammany Hall in Flesh and Blood; Moose Season in Maine; doublepage centerfold political satire cartoon of William J. Bryan; poem "The Young Queen" by Kipling; and other... Read full description  

Cover illustration by W.A. Rogers...

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 22, 1900  The cover of this issue has a political cartoon by W.A. Rogers titled "Smashed!".

The "inside cover" has an illustration captioned: "The Destruction of Galveston" (see photo), with more inside, including a half pg. titled: "Bathing Pavilions On the Beach At... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 25, 1900

"What Might Have Been If The Original Thirteen States Had Never Been Expanded", by W.A. Rogers; Prisoners of Peking; Peking and Tientsin; Korea of To-Day; Zinc-field of Arkansas; "The Fishermen of San Francisco" by W.A. Rogers; and other news of the day. See photos for full details.

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Aug. 18, 1900

* Caleb Powers found guilty of murder
* First secretary of state of Kentucky
* Governor William Goebel of Kentucky

The top of the front page has a two column heading: "POWERS FOUND GUILTY AND PRISON FOR LIFE" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from... Read full description  

HARPER'S WEEKLY,  New York, August 4, 1900  Fullpage "Summer Days Awheel" bicycle illustration. American Troops Ordered to China; Cape Nome Beach and Tundra Placer Mines;  The Boxer Uprising in Peking; the Assassination of King Humbert of Italy; and other news of the day. See photos for full details.

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, June 16, 1900 The Golden Gate Park at San Francisco; The Paris Exposition; Watching a Total Eclipse; a  full-page colored political cartoon; and other news of the day. See photos for full details.

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, February 17, 1900  Colored doublepaged centerfold "A Winter's Night On Broadway" by Everett Shinn. The funeral of General Henry W. L.awton; The Kentucky Insurrection; The Great Fire in Honolul; The Boer War and numerous news articles of the day. See photos for full details.