Huge 200 Plus Pages Antique Civil War Prints All From Harper\'s Weekly Dated 1862
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Huge 200 Plus Pages Antique Civil War Prints All From Harper\'s Weekly Dated 1862:
$26.50
Huge 200 Plus Pages Antique Civil War Prints All From Harper\'s Weekly Dated 1862. Some have much edge wear and tears but most are decent and many are near fine. My 12 photos will give you an idea of the lot being offered. I started counting and at 100 I was less than half way sp calling it 200 plus double sides pages, if you count both sides of the page it would be 400 plus. Some are the famous double sides ones that look great framed. Everyone of these are genuine year 1862 Harper\'s Weekly, right in the middle of the Civil War so filled with great content. Some are still bound together with string on the edge so these might have been originally from a couple of the huge bound library hard cover editions.
Harper\'s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Harper\'s Weekly was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War. So as not to upset its wide readership in the South, Harper\'s took a moderate editorial position on the issue of slavery prior to the outbreak of the war. Publications that supported abolition referred to it as \"Harper\'s Weakly\". The Weekly had supported the Stephen A. Douglas presidential campaign against Abraham Lincoln, but as the American Civil War broke out, it fully supported Lincoln and the Union. A July 1863 article on the escaped slave Gordon included a photograph of his back, severely scarred from whippings; this provided many readers in the North their first visual evidence of the brutality of slavery. The photograph inspired many free blacks in the North to enlist.
Some of the most important articles and illustrations of the time were Harper\'s reporting on the war. Besides renderings by Homer and Nast, the magazine also published illustrations by Theodore R. Davis, Henry Mosler, and the brothers Alfred and William Waud.
In 1863, George William Curtis, one of the founders of the Republican Party, became the political editor of the magazine, and remained in that capacity until his death in 1892. His editorials advocated civil service reform, low tariffs, and adherence to the gold standard.
Huge 200 Plus Pages Antique Civil War Prints All From Harper\'s Weekly Dated 1862:
$26.50