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Homer print on the front page... Jefferson Davis...
Homer print on the front page... Jefferson Davis...
Item # 695441
February 02, 1861
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Feb. 2, 1861
* Winslow Homer illustration (front page)
* Southern delegation w/ Jefferson Davis
The full front page shows: "The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress" done by famed artist Winslow Homer, showing, among others, Senator Jefferson Davis.
Other prints within include: "Sea Battery, Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va". The dramatic, tipped-in, doublepage centerfold is: "Dream of a Secessionist--Washington and Valley Forge". There are two scenes of: "The Brooklyn Academy of Music" and a small print of "D.F. Jamieson".
This issue also contains a serialized portion of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
The back page is mostly taken up with a series of 9 cartoons headed: "An Evening With Rarey" plus another cartoon.
Sixteen pages, a bit of very light foxing, nice condition.
Category: The Civil War
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