September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Group of seven issues of Harper’s Weekly newspapers, November 14, 1874 through December 26, 1874, each 16pp., bound together, replete with wood cut engravings, VG. A a quick look we find the following; From the November 21st issue, a wood cut illustration “A Company of Whites Lay in Ambush for a Party of Negroes Returning from Church, Killed Ten, and Wounded Thirteen,” a report on the Ku Klux Klan; December 5th, The Artic Discovery; December 12th, interior page, Quarrying Stone for the new Mormon Temple; December 19th, interior page, The Chicago Fire Department; December 12th issue, front cover shows Buffalo slaughter; December 26, front cover, Faith - Waiting for Santa Clause.
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