September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Newspaper Grouping, 14 Various issues of Harper's Weekly, various dates 1874, each issue complete with 16 pages, several with supplements, all disbound, all VG. This issues are all loaded with wood-cut engravings covering the topics of Politics, Western Sketches, Buffalo, Communism, and National News. The dates included are; 1/10, 2/7, 3/7, 3/21, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 5/9, 5/23, 6/6, 6/20, 7/18, 8/8, and 8/29. Some quick highlights include 2/7 Cover repudiates Communism; 3/21 Interior 1/2 page "Shooting Buffalo;" 4/4 Cover and interior, Death of Charles Sumner;" 4/11 interior Sketches of the West; 4/18 Interior engraving and bio of Darwin; 5/9 Interior, President Grant resists paper money; 6/6 Front cover, Flood at Mill River; 6/20 Interior Indian sketches; 8/8 Front Cover, Army stands against the Indians; 8/29 Front Cover, Blacks pardoned in South Carolina.
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