Steamboats... Oscar Wilde... Heating New York with steam...

Item # 174698

September 09, 1882

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 9, 1882 The full front page has four illusstrations of: "The Apple Harvest." Inside has a quarter-page portrait: "Maggie Keppel, Alleged Kidnapper of Lizzie Selden"; a half page print of: "Hoisting Cylinder on Board the New Steamboat Pilgrim"; a full print of five smaller illus. pertaining to "Heating New York By Steam."
Doublepage centerfold. of "Sick People Waiting for the Nile to Rise"; a quarter-page portrait of "Herbert Spencer"; a half page print of: "Volksfest, Caledonia Park, Jersey City Heights"; a half page Thomas Nast print: "More Protection in a Free Country"; two small Nast illus. referring to "Doctor Bismarck."
Of interest is a Thomas Nast cartoon featuring Oscar Wilde, captoined: "Oscar Wilde On Our Cast Iron Stoves". Also a back page Nast political cartoon.
Complete in 16 pages, good condition.

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Category: 1880-1889