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Death of Robert E Lee...



Item # 173456

October 29, 1870

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 29, 1870  The full front page is "Balloons from Paris Passing Over the Prussian Lines". Text on the death of Robert E. Lee is on the third page of the issue. Four halfpage illustrations on the war. A full page illustration 'Betting on the Favorite' is a scene at a horse race track. A full page Thomas Nast cartoon "The Tammany King-Dom - The Power Behold the Throne. He Cannot Call His Soul His Own".  1/3 page view of "Approach to Montgomery, Alabama". 1/2 pg: 'Oyster Stands in Fulton Market'. A Thomas Nast political cartoon is on the back page.
Complete in 16 pages and contains additional prints and related text. 

Category: 1870-1879