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The Ultimate Harper's Weekly Archive

Available for purchase are 95% of all publication dates — illustrating history from 1857 to 1916.

As the most widely read illustrated newspaper for most of its years of publication, Harper’s Weekly provided a visual face to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Westward Expansion. The archive is famous for the collectible work of illustrators Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, as well as Thomas Nast—whose cartoons gave us the enduring Santa Claus, Republican Elephant, and Democratic Donkey.

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First world championship boxing match: Heenan vs. Sayers...
Item # 727806 ·
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, May 5, 1860 

* Famous boxing match print
* John Heenan vs. Thomas Sayers
* MISSING THE TWO FRONT LEAFS ***

The prime feature of this issue would have to be the great...
$57
Premiere of "Back to the Future" (2nd day), in a Los Angeles newspaper...
Item # 727504 ·
LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 4, 1985

* Best "Back to the Future" film advertisement
* Grand Opening Day movie premiere review
* Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly - comedy

A nice issue on the 2nd day premiere of...
$68
Thomas Alva Edison on the front page... Saratoga Regatta...
Item # 727494 ·
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, August 2, 1879  The full front page is a print captioned: "Edison In His Workshop" showing him at work on an experiment. Very displayable. An inside page has a related...
$120
1938 Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling... Rematch...
Item # 727475 ·
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, June 23, 1938

* Joe Louis (Brown Bomber)
* Max Schmeling (German fighter)
* Famous rematch - boxing

The top of page 2B has a banner heading: "X-RAY SHOWS SCHMELING'S SPINE...
$82
Item # 727348 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 17, 1956 

* Last performance under the canvas "Big Top"
* Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 
* "The Greatest Show on Earth" tradition ends 

The bottom of the front...
$68
African-American soldiers... Cricket match...
Item # 727187 ·
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Nov. 1, 1879  The full ftpg. is a Thomas Nast political cartoon showing Blacks & captioned: "The Next Debut - Now Let General M.C. Butler, of South Carolina, Show How...
$83
1898 Battle of Manila Bay....
Item # 726278 ·
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, May 6, 1898

* Battle of Manila Bay, Philippines
* Admiral George Dewey's victory
* Spanish-American War

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "MANILA...
$39
Heqakheperre Shoshenq II discovered in 1939
Item # 725453 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 20, 1939

* Heqakheperre Shoshenq II discovered
* 22nd Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh
* Tanis, Egypt - Pierre Montet 

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading:...
$52
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