Complete Year of Harper’s Weekly - 1864

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Complete Bound Volume of "Harper's Weekly," January 2, 1864 through December 31, 1864, 53 issues, period bindings, loose at spine, covers present. There is so many important issues we can only mention a few. Winslow Homer is well represented with volume. Here are the five Homer prints, [2/6/1864] center spread, "Halt of a Wagon; [3/5/1864] full page "Any thing for me please?" [4/16/1864] front cover "Floral Department of the Great Fair." [5/28/1864] center spread "Army of the Potomac - Sleeping on Their Arms." [12/3/1864] full page "Thanksgiving Day in the Army - After Dinner, the Wish-Bone." Of course the volume has more than just Winslow Homer. here are few great issues.[3/5/1864] Front cover "The Escaped Refugees From Libby Prison." [3/26/1864] "General Grant receiving His Commission as lieutenant General From the President." and a center spread "Scene Connected with general Custer ..." [4/30/1864] "The Massacre at Fort Pillow." [5/21/1864] Center spread "Rebel Atrocities." [6/11/1864] President Lincoln and his Secretaries." [7/9/1864] Negro execution of William Johnson. [7/2/1864] Front cover "The Rebel General Robert Edmund Lee." [9/24/1864] front page "The Late rebel General John (Hunt) Morgan." [10/1/1864] Center spread of Lincoln and the flag "Rally Round the Flag Boys." [10/15/1864] McClellan's nomination "Chicago Platform." [11/12/.64] Front cover :General Custer Presenting Captured Battle Flags ..." [11/12/1864] Center spread "Election Day." [12/3/1864] Center spread "United We Stand." [12/10/1864] Center spread "General Sherman's Grand march Through Georgia." [12/31/1864] Center spread "union Christmas Dinner."

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