{"title":"Black History, Emancipation \u0026 Reconstruction Newspapers","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal antique newspapers documenting the African American experience during one of the most pivotal eras in U.S. history — from Emancipation through Reconstruction and beyond. These authentic Harper's Weekly issues feature Thomas Nast's landmark Emancipation Proclamation illustrations, Frederick Douglass correspondence, Black soldiers and voters, Freedmen's schools, Reconstruction-era political cartoons, and firsthand coverage of the struggle for civil rights in post-Civil War America. Essential primary sources for historians, educators, libraries, and collectors of African American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"harper-s-weekly-august-15-1868-thomas-nast-reconstruction-castle-garden-maryland-flood-zouaves-virginia-hunting","title":"Harper’s Weekly August 15 1868 Thomas Nast Reconstruction Castle Garden Maryland Flood Zouaves Virginia Hunting","description":"Harper’s Weekly August 15 1868 Thomas Nast Reconstruction Castle Garden Maryland Flood Zouaves Virginia Hunting\n\n\n---\n\nDescription\n\nA powerful and richly illustrated August 15, 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly featuring Thomas Nast’s iconic full-page front cover, “Reconstruction.” This is an original 1868 publication — a striking post–Civil War issue filled with political art, American social history, and vivid engravings. 🇺🇸✨\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Highlights From This Issue\n\n🎨 Front Page by Thomas Nast\n\n• “Reconstruction” — one of Nast’s most admired allegorical works, symbolizing equal rights and national rebuilding. A standout display piece.\n\n🛬 Immigration \u0026amp; Urban Life\n\n• The Labor Exchange – Emigrants on the Battery, Castle Garden, New York\n• Interior View of the Office at Castle Garden\nFascinating snapshots of 19th-century immigration processing.\n\n🌧️ The Maryland Flood\n\nThree dramatic 1\/3-page engravings:\n• Hillen Street, Baltimore 🌊\n• Ellicott City after the flood\n• Harrison Street, Baltimore\nThese provide rare visual documentation of the destruction.\n\n🚂 The Village Depot\n\nA vertical 2\/3-page engraving full of architectural and small-town detail.\n\n🌄 Hunting \u0026amp; the Outdoors\n\n• Rail or Sora Hunting in Virginia\n• Up Among the Nineties (two 1\/2-page outdoor scenes)\n\n🎖️ Military \u0026amp; Public Life\n\n• Competitive Drill Between Boston and New York Zouave Companies\n• Portrait of Joseph G. Cogswell, LL.D.\n• View of the Shakespearian Memorial Library in Birmingham, England\n\n⚓ Humor \u0026amp; Small Illustrations\n\n• “Pursuit of Aquatic Knowledge Under Difficulties”\n• “A Moving Tale”\n\n\n---\n\n📏 Size\n\nApprox. 11 x 16 inches per page.\n\n\n---\n\n📜 Condition\n\nGood overall with typical age toning and minor edge wear. Binding holes from original stitching are present, as expected.\nPlease review all photos carefully to assess condition.\n\n\n---\n\n🖼️ Framing Available\n\nFront-page Nast engravings look exceptional when framed.\nMessage me for optional framing details.\n\n\n---\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips flat with secure packaging and tracking.\n\n\n---\n\nIf you'd like a bundle listing with other Reconstruction-era issues or other Nast covers, I can prepare one!","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264011727068,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/b8d8c2dc-il_fullxfull.7533215531_3qf3.jpg?v=1786496606"},{"product_id":"harper-s-weekly-october-10-1868-black-americana-water-drinkers-in-spain-south-american-earthquake-wreck-paraguayan","title":"Harper’s Weekly – October 10, 1868 – Black Americana - Water Drinkers in Spain • South American Earthquake Wreck • Paraguayan","description":"Harper’s Weekly – October 10, 1868 – Water Drinkers in Spain • South American Earthquake Wreck • Thomas Nast Political Cartoon • Paraguayan War • Indian Attack in Kansas\n\nA rich and varied issue featuring international scenes, Reconstruction-era political commentary, frontier conflict, and dramatic maritime and sporting imagery.\n\n⭐ Highlights Inside This Issue\n\nFront page: The Water Drinkers in Spain — a striking three-quarter-page engraving 🇪🇸\n\nFull-page maritime scenes:\n\nSouth American Earthquakes – Wreck of the “Wateree” 🌊\n\nYacht Race for Vice-Commodore Bennett’s Prizes, September 22, 1868 ⛵\n\n\nParaguayan War illustrations: Bombarded church at Humaitá, shown in two views ⚔️\n\nMajor Thomas Nast political cartoon: “Patience on a Monument” — a historically significant Reconstruction-era satire\n\nImmigration \u0026amp; citizenship: Examining \u0026amp; Swearing Naturalized Citizens and Securing Certificates of Naturalization in the Clerk’s Office 🇺🇸\n\nWestern frontier conflict: Attack of Indians on a Bull Train Near Sheridan, Kansas\n\nCultural \u0026amp; religious history: Nearly full-page engraving The Luther Monument at Worms, Germany\n\nSports: Match for the Billiard Championship at Chicago, Illinois\n\nBack page Nast cartoon: A Respectable Screen Covers a Multitude of Thieves 🎩\n\n\nComplete in 16 pages.\n\n📚 Who Would Love This Issue\n\nAppeals strongly to collectors of:\n\nThomas Nast political satire\n\nReconstruction \u0026amp; Black Americana history\n\nImmigration and naturalization ephemera\n\nMaritime disaster engravings\n\n19th-century European cultural illustrations\n\nWestern frontier \u0026amp; Indian Wars scenes\n\nYacht racing and early American sports prints\n\nAntique illustrated newspapers 📰\n\n\nA dynamic issue with outstanding cross-collecting potential.\n\n📏 Size\n\nApprox. 11\" × 16\".\n\n🧾 Condition\n\nGood condition with light age toning typical of issues from this era.\nI photograph every page, so please review all images carefully and reach out with any questions about specific details.\n\n🖼️ Optional Archival Framing\n\nArchival, acid-free matting and UV-protective acrylic framing available for any display page. Perfect for study, office, or gallery-style presentation. 🖼️✨\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips flat, never rolled, and securely packaged for preservation.\n\n🏷️ SEO Tags\n\nHarper’s Weekly 1868, Thomas Nast cartoon, Patience on a Monument, Water Drinkers in Spain engraving, South American earthquake wreck, Wateree shipwreck, Paraguayan War print, naturalization immigrants 19th century, Indian attack Kansas engraving, Luther Monument Worms Germany, antique newspaper, Reconstruction political satire, yacht race 1868.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264012120284,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/619fa82b-il_fullxfull.7479852924_2f7e.jpg?v=1786496610"},{"product_id":"1881-nast-clean-sweep-nyc-hunters-point-sick-room-negro-laborers-hudson-aug-20","title":"1881 Nast \"Clean Sweep NYC,\" Hunter's Point Sick Room, Negro Laborers Hudson — Aug 20","description":"1881 Nast \"Clean Sweep NYC,\" Hunter's Point Sick Room, Negro Laborers Hudson — Aug 20\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis August 20, 1881 issue of Harper's Weekly is a socially rich and historically significant summer number — Thomas Nast's battle cry for civic reform, the ongoing Hunter's Point pollution crisis devastating the sick and vulnerable, a vivid document of Black labor on the Hudson River, a dramatic trotting race, and the Girondists' centerfold. For collectors of Thomas Nast, New York City reform history, African American labor history, industrial pollution history, and Gilded Age Americana, this is an exceptional primary source issue.\n\n🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"LET US HAVE A CLEAN SWEEP ALL AROUND NEW YORK\"\nThe full front page delivers one of Thomas Nast's most forceful civic reform cartoons: \"Let Us Have a Clean Sweep All Around New York\" — a sweeping call for the comprehensive cleansing of New York City's political corruption, municipal mismanagement, and environmental disaster, at a moment when the city was simultaneously reeling from the Tammany Hall legacy, the Albany patronage crisis, and the industrial pollution catastrophe at Hunter's Point and Newtown Creek. Nast's broom is raised against all of it — a fully displayable and historically resonant Nast original of great appeal to collectors of American political cartooning, New York City reform history, and Gilded Age civic history.\n\n🏇 \"A HORSE TROT\"\nA full-page illustration of a horse trotting race — the most popular spectator sport in Gilded Age America, combining the drama of competition with the elegance of fine horseflesh and the social pleasures of the race ground. A beautifully rendered and displayable piece of American sporting history and Victorian equestrian illustration.\n\n🏭 \"THE VICTIMS OF HUNTER'S POINT — HOW THE FOUL ODORS AGGRAVATE THE MISERIES OF THE SICK ROOM\"\nA full-page illustration continuing the devastating multi-week Harper's Weekly exposé of the Hunter's Point industrial pollution crisis — this installment focusing on the human cost to the sick and vulnerable living near the factories and refineries of Newtown Creek, whose toxic fumes invaded sickrooms and made recovery impossible for the ill and dying. A deeply moving and historically significant piece of New York City environmental history and Victorian social reform journalism — one of the earliest sustained illustrated press campaigns against industrial pollution in American history. A primary source document of exceptional importance for collectors of New York City history, environmental history, and the history of public health reform.\n\n⚫ \"NEGRO LABORERS AT WORK UNDER THE STORM KING, HUDSON RIVER\"\nA full-page illustration of Black laborers working along the Hudson River beneath the dramatic highlands of Storm King Mountain — one of the most historically significant African American labor history images in the Harper's Weekly run. Storm King and the surrounding Hudson highlands were sites of extensive quarrying, construction, and industrial labor in the 1880s, much of it performed by Black workers whose presence and contribution to the building of Gilded Age New York is rarely documented in the illustrated press. This engraving is a primary source document of African American labor history, Hudson River history, and the post-Reconstruction economic experience of Black Americans in the North — of exceptional interest to collectors of African American history, labor history, and Hudson River history.\n\n🗡️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE GIRONDISTS\"\nThe double-page centerfold presents \"The Girondists\" — a dramatic historical illustration depicting the doomed moderate republicans of the French Revolution, whose tragic fate at the hands of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety made them enduring symbols of principled resistance to tyranny and mob rule. A richly composed and fully displayable historical centerfold of great appeal to collectors of French Revolutionary history and Victorian historical illustration.\n\n🖼️ PORTRAITS\nThree quarter-page portraits document notable figures:\n\n\"The Late Ex-Governor John J. Bagley\" — the prominent Michigan governor, tobacco manufacturer, and Republican statesman whose death in 1881 marked the end of a significant Gilded Age political career\n\"The Late General Patterson\" — a memorial portrait of a notable military figure\n\"Spotted Tail\" — a portrait of the celebrated Brulé Lakota chief, one of the most important and complex Native American leaders of the post-Civil War era, whose assassination by Crow Dog in August 1881 had just shocked the nation and whose death would lead directly to the landmark Supreme Court case Ex parte Crow Dog\n\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete 16-page issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from August 20, 1881 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Presents well for its 144-year age. Natural toning to the newsprint consistent with age. The Nast front page, the Hunter's Point sick room illustration, the Negro Laborers Hudson River full page, the Girondists centerfold, and the Spotted Tail portrait are all clear and displayable.\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 144-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1881 Harpers Weekly, Thomas Nast Clean Sweep New York, Hunter's Point Sick Room Pollution, Negro Laborers Hudson River Storm King, Spotted Tail Lakota Chief Portrait, Girondists French Revolution, Horse Trot Racing 1881, African American Labor History, New York Environmental Reform 1881, Spotted Tail Assassination 1881, Ex parte Crow Dog History, Thomas Nast Political Cartoon, Antique Newspaper 1881, 19th Century Americana, Gilded Age Environmental History","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264013168860,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/5639022b-il_fullxfull.7875915540_khxv.jpg?v=1786496623"},{"product_id":"harper-s-weekly-november-8-1862-mrs-lincoln-rosecrans-negroes-driven-south-centerfold","title":"Harper’s Weekly – November 8, 1862 – Mrs. Lincoln • Rosecrans • “Negroes Driven South” Centerfold","description":"---\n\nHarper’s Weekly – November 8, 1862 – Mrs. Lincoln • Rosecrans • “Negroes Driven South” Centerfold\n\nA powerful and historically significant Civil War–era issue of Harper’s Weekly, published November 8, 1862. This edition features an emotional and politically charged double-page centerfold depicting enslaved people being driven South by Confederate officers, along with striking portraits, battlefield scenes, railroad destruction, camp views, and a rare early engraving of Mary Todd Lincoln.\n\nThis issue is complete in 16 pages.\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Key Highlights \u0026amp; Engravings\n\n🖼 Full Front Page\n\nMajor-General William S. Rosecrans, Commander of the Army of the Ohio — a full-page portrait.\n\n\n👒 Mrs. Lincoln\n\n“Mrs. Lincoln, Wife of the President”\nA rare and desirable engraving of Mary Todd Lincoln, accompanied by an article about her.\n\n\n⚔ War Scenes \u0026amp; Soldiers\n\n“Reception of the 9th Indiana Volunteers at Danville, Kentucky, After Driving Out the Rebels.”\n\n“The Rebels Destroying the Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad, as Seen from Fair View.”\n\n“John W. Packham, the Youngest Corporal in the Army.”\n\nHancock, Maryland – 98th Pennsylvania Volunteers Camp (‘Bully Dutchmen’).\n\n“Union Jack, the Pet of Our Richmond Prisoners.”\n\n\n🚂 Infrastructure \u0026amp; Movement\n\n“Penalty of Selling Liquor to Soldiers.”\n\n“Passing Under the Canal to the Ford.”\n\n“Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio Railroad Station at Hancock.”\n\n\n🔥 Double-Page Centerfold\n\n“Negroes Driven South by the Rebel Officers.”\nA large, emotionally charged scene showing enslaved men, women, and children being forced South as human property.\nThis is one of the most socially significant and impactful engravings from the 1862 run of Harper’s Weekly — highly collectible and ideal for framing.\n\n(This engraving can have deep emotional weight; some collectors seek it specifically for classroom display or exhibits.)\n\n⚓ Naval Illustration\n\n“The Foreign Men-of-War in Our Harbor.”\n\n\n🎭 Back Page Political Cartoons\n\nIncludes:\n\n“Exasperation of John Bull at the News from the U.S.”\n\n“The Draft.”\n\n\nClassic examples of wartime editorial satire.\n\n\n---\n\n📝 Condition\n\nOverall fair to good, consistent with an authentic 1862 newspaper.\nExpect:\n\nEdge wear, small tears, and light chipping\n\nBinding holes along the left margin (as issued)\n\nSome page folds, toning, and foxing\n\nOccasional dog-ears or small paper losses\n\nCenterfold stress at the crease\n\nAll pages present and readable\n\n\n📸 I photograph every page of the newspapers I sell.\nPlease examine the photos carefully—they provide the most accurate representation of condition.\nIf you need close-ups of specific engravings, wear areas, or text, please ask before purchasing. I’m always happy to help.\n\n\n---\n\n🖼 Optional Archival Framing\n\nI offer museum-quality framing using:\n\nAcid-free matting\n\nUV-protective acrylic\n\nArchival backing\n\nPeriod-appropriate or modern frame styles\n\n\nPopular pieces to frame from this issue:\n\nMrs. Lincoln portrait\n\nRosecrans front page\n\nThe double-page centerfold of enslaved people being driven South\n\nRailroad destruction scene\n\n\nMessage me to discuss framing options, sizes, and pricing.\n\n\n---\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips flat (never rolled)\n\nRigid archival packaging\n\nTracking + insurance included\n\nCombined shipping available on multiple issues\n\n\n\n---\n\n🎁 Ideal For\n\nCivil War collectors\n\nLincoln collectors\n\nHistorians \u0026amp; educators\n\nMuseums and heritage centers\n\nCollectors of abolitionist or slavery-related imagery\n\nGift-givers seeking meaningful historic prints\n\n\n\n---\n\n📌 SEO Tags\n\nHarper’s Weekly 1862, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln engraving, Mary Todd Lincoln, General Rosecrans portrait, Civil War slavery print, enslaved people driven South, abolitionist history, Baltimore \u0026amp; Ohio railroad destruction, 9th Indiana Volunteers, Civil War political cartoons, antique newspaper, authentic Civil War issue, Union Army engravings, 19th century illustration, Civil War ephemera, Harper’s Weekly November 8 1862\n\n\n---","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264013594844,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/0070db50-il_fullxfull.7464213746_cht6.jpg?v=1786496626"},{"product_id":"1867-black-voters-washington-d-c-sing-sing-prison-16-scenes-queen-victoria-jun-22","title":"1867 Black Voters Washington D.C., Sing Sing Prison 16 Scenes, Queen Victoria — Jun 22","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 22, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — Black voters exercising their franchise in Washington D.C. documented in text and image at the dawn of Reconstruction suffrage, a magnificent sixteen-scene double-page centerfold of life inside Sing Sing Prison, Queen Victoria on the front page, and the New York Constitutional Convention. Strong content for Black history collectors, prison history enthusiasts, and royal history lovers alike.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ BLACK VOTERS IN WASHINGTON D.C.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗳️ QUARTER PAGE — \"SIGNIFICANT ELECTION SCENE AT WASHINGTON\" — BLACK VOTERS, WITH TEXT\nA quarter-page illustration of Black men voting in Washington D.C. — accompanied by text noting that \"the whole colored race in Washington appears to have appreciated its privilege on this occasion.\" Published in June 1867, this is a primary document of one of the earliest municipal elections in which Black men voted in Washington D.C. — following the passage of legislation granting Black male suffrage in the District in January 1867, which President Johnson had vetoed and Congress had overridden. Washington D.C. was one of the first American jurisdictions where Black men voted in the Reconstruction era, making this scene a landmark in American civil rights history. The text's language — \"the whole colored race... appears to have appreciated its privilege\" — reflects the condescending yet undeniable recognition by the Northern press that Black voters were participating in democracy with enthusiasm and purpose. A significant piece of Black American history, voting rights history, and Washington D.C. history — a companion to \"The First Vote\" (November 1867) and \"The Negro at the Ballot Box\" (March 1867) in the Harper's Weekly Black suffrage series.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔒 SING SING PRISON — SIXTEEN SCENES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛓️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE LIFE OF A CONVICT AT SING SING PRISON, NEW YORK\" — SIXTEEN SCENES\nA magnificent sixteen-scene double-page centerfold documenting every aspect of life inside Sing Sing Prison on the Hudson River — one of the most famous prisons in America, established in 1828 and already synonymous with American criminal justice. Sixteen scenes is an extraordinary concentration of documentary illustration for any single subject — covering the daily routine, the cells, the workshops, the meals, the discipline, and the human faces of the prison population. Sing Sing was in 1867 at the center of debates about prison reform, with reformers arguing for rehabilitation over punishment and prison administrators defending harsh discipline. A vivid, comprehensive, and very frameable piece of American criminal justice history and New York State history. A collector's centerfold.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n👑 QUEEN VICTORIA\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n👑 FRONT PAGE — \"PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA\" IN AN ORNATE FRAME\nA front-page portrait of Queen Victoria in a very ornate frame — published in the year of Canada's Confederation and at the height of the British Empire under her reign. A beautiful and very displayable piece of Victorian royal history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏛️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ FULL PAGE — \"CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AT ALBANY\"\nA full-page illustration of the New York Constitutional Convention at Albany — the 1867 convention that attempted to rewrite the New York State Constitution, including debates over Black suffrage, judicial reform, and legislative apportionment. A significant piece of New York State political history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· June 22, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nBlack voters Washington DC, Black voting Washington 1867, colored race voting Washington, Black suffrage DC antique, election Washington DC antique, Black men vote DC antique, Reconstruction voting rights, First Vote companion antique, Black voting rights primary, DC Black suffrage 1867, African American voting antique, Sing Sing Prison centerfold, Sing Sing sixteen scenes, life convict Sing Sing, Sing Sing prison antique, prison life Victorian antique, New York prison history, criminal justice antique, Sing Sing Hudson River, prison reform antique, convict life New York, Queen Victoria portrait ornate, Queen Victoria front page, Victorian royal portrait, Queen Victoria antique print, British Empire antique, Constitutional Convention Albany, New York Constitution 1867, Albany convention antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, prison history collector, royal history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264015560924,"sku":null,"price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/41eccb2d-il_fullxfull.8363459655_qjpv.jpg?v=1786496649"},{"product_id":"1867-black-children-school-indian-council-fort-dodge-nast-cartoon-may-25","title":"1867 Black Children School, Indian Council Fort Dodge, Nast Cartoon — May 25","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · May 25, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically powerful issue hitting three of the most collectible categories simultaneously — Black children in a Reconstruction schoolroom on the front page, four scenes from the Indian War at Fort Dodge Kansas including an Indian council, a Thomas Nast political cartoon, and New York's Sunday liquor law being evaded. Primary documents of education, the Indian Wars, and Gilded Age vice all in one complete newspaper.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ BLACK CHILDREN IN SCHOOL — RECONSTRUCTION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏫 FRONT PAGE — \"EDUCATING THE FREEDMEN\" — THREE ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDING \"SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN\"\nA front page of three illustrations documenting the education of formerly enslaved people — including a scene of a school for Black children — published at the exact moment the Freedmen's Bureau schools were transforming the educational landscape of the post-Civil War South. For people who had been legally denied literacy under slavery, a schoolroom was an act of liberation as radical as the ballot box. The Freedmen's Bureau schools of 1867 were the seeds of what would become the historically Black college and university system — including Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark Atlanta — and this front page documents that founding moment. A significant, moving, and highly collectible piece of Black American educational history, African American history, and Reconstruction-era civil rights documentation. Framing potential is exceptional.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🪶 THE INDIAN WAR — FORT DODGE, KANSAS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏕️ TWO FULL PAGES — \"THE INDIAN WAR — INDIAN COUNCIL AT FORT DODGE, KANSAS\" — FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS\nFour illustrations documenting life at Fort Dodge, Kansas during the Indian Wars of 1867 — including an Indian council, the sutler's store, and the fort's interior. Fort Dodge sat on the Santa Fe Trail in southwestern Kansas, one of the most contested frontiers in America in 1867 as Cheyenne Dog Soldiers resisted the encroachment of the railroad and settlers into their prime buffalo hunting grounds. The Indian council scene — showing Native leaders meeting with U.S. military and government representatives — is a primary document of the diplomatic and military negotiations that were simultaneously happening alongside the violence of the Hancock Expedition. Fort Dodge would become the staging point for Custer's famous winter campaign of 1868 that resulted in the Battle of the Washita. A significant piece of Indian Wars history and Kansas frontier history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✏️ THOMAS NAST\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n✏️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON\nA full-page Thomas Nast political cartoon — in May 1867, Nast was at the absolute peak of his Reconstruction-era output, producing some of the most powerful political illustrations in American history. A significant piece of Gilded Age political art.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🍺 SUNDAY LIQUOR IN NEW YORK\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🍺 FULL PAGE — \"HOW THE EXCISE LAW IS EVADED — DISPENSING LIQUOR IN PUBLIC HOUSE PARLORS ON SUNDAY\" — TWO SCENES\nA full-page illustration of New Yorkers finding creative ways to drink on Sunday despite the excise law — a vivid and humorous piece of Gilded Age New York social history, the perennial battle between temperance reformers and the city's drinking culture captured in two scenes of pub parlor ingenuity.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· May 25, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nBlack children school Reconstruction, school colored children antique, educating freedmen antique, Black education 1867 antique, freedmen school front page, Reconstruction Black school, African American education antique, freedmen bureau schools antique, Black schoolroom antique, HBCU origins antique, Indian council Fort Dodge, Fort Dodge Kansas antique, Indian War Fort Dodge, Cheyenne Indian council antique, sutler store Fort Dodge, Indian Wars Kansas 1867, Santa Fe Trail fort antique, Plains Indian council antique, Custer Washita precursor, Indian Wars primary document, Thomas Nast political cartoon, Nast Reconstruction cartoon, Gilded Age political art, Sunday excise law, liquor Sunday New York, pub parlor evasion, New York liquor law antique, Gilded Age drinking antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, Indian Wars collector, Nast collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264015855836,"sku":null,"price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/0e0eba1d-il_fullxfull.8315230102_3tpy.jpg?v=1786496655"},{"product_id":"1867-margaret-garner-modern-medea-loc-inspired-beloved-may-18","title":"1867 Margaret Garner \"Modern Medea\" — LoC, Inspired Beloved — May 18","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · May 18, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nOne of the most historically significant issues in the entire Harper's Weekly run — the full-page illustration \"The Modern Medea: The Story of Margaret Garner,\" held by the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Museum, and the NYPL Schomburg Center, depicting the fugitive slave whose story inspired Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. Combined with Charleston saluting the Union flag and a newsboy lodging house centerfold, this is a primary document of Black American history at its most profound.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ \"THE MODERN MEDEA\" — MARGARET GARNER\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📰 FULL PAGE — \"THE MODERN MEDEA — THE STORY OF MARGARET GARNER\" — AFTER A PAINTING BY THOMAS SATTERWHITE NOBLE — WITH ARTICLE\nThe most historically significant illustration in this issue and one of the most important pieces of Black American history in the entire Harper's Weekly run — a full-page wood engraving after the painting by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, photographed by Mathew Brady, held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress (Call Number: Illus. in AP2.H32 1867, LC-DIG-ds-14485), the Brooklyn Museum, and the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.\n\nMargaret Garner was an enslaved woman from Kentucky who in January 1856 escaped across the frozen Ohio River to Cincinnati with her husband, four children, and other family members. When U.S. Marshals and slave catchers arrived to recapture them under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Garner seized a butcher knife and killed her two-year-old daughter Mary, and wounded her other three children, rather than allow them to be returned to slavery. She said she would have killed herself and all four children had she not been overpowered. Her trial became a national cause célèbre and one of the most dramatic confrontations over the Fugitive Slave Act.\n\nNoble's 1867 painting — depicting the moment of capture, with Garner standing over her children — became one of the most powerful anti-slavery images in American art. The Harper's Weekly article accompanying this illustration wrote that Garner had shown \"a far nobler jealousy than that which actuated the mythical Medea.\" The painting is now on permanent display at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, gifted by Procter \u0026amp; Gamble.\n\nMargaret Garner's story directly inspired Toni Morrison to write Beloved (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the American Book Award, and is widely considered one of the greatest American novels. Morrison also wrote the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner (2005), with music by Richard Danielpour. This Harper's Weekly illustration — the primary published document of Noble's painting — is held by the Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, and NYPL Schomburg Center. An original print in a complete original issue — not a reproduction — of a work that inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. An essential piece for any collection of Black American history, women's history, and anti-slavery history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇺🇸 CHARLESTON SALUTES THE UNION FLAG\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎺 HALF PAGE — \"THE CHARLESTON FIREMEN SALUTING THE OLD FLAG\"\nA half-page illustration of Charleston, South Carolina firemen saluting the Union flag — a significant and complex piece of Reconstruction-era reconciliation symbolism, as the city where the Civil War began adjusted to the new order. A significant piece of Charleston and Reconstruction history.\n\n🪦 HALF PAGE — \"UNION PRISONERS' CEMETERY AT CHARLESTON, S.C.\"\nA half-page illustration of the Union prisoners' cemetery at Charleston — where Union soldiers who died in Confederate captivity were buried, a significant piece of Civil War commemoration and memory.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📰 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📰 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE NEWSBOYS' LODGING-HOUSE, NEW YORK\" — TEN SCENES\nA double-page centerfold of ten scenes documenting the Newsboys' Lodging House in New York — the celebrated institution founded by Charles Loring Brace and the Children's Aid Society to provide shelter, education, and meals to the thousands of homeless newsboys who worked the streets of New York City. A significant piece of New York City social history and the history of child welfare reform.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· May 18, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nMargaret Garner Modern Medea, Margaret Garner Harper's Weekly, Modern Medea Thomas Noble, Margaret Garner Library Congress, Margaret Garner Brooklyn Museum, Margaret Garner NYPL Schomburg, Margaret Garner fugitive slave, Beloved Toni Morrison inspiration, Margaret Garner Beloved, Toni Morrison Margaret Garner, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Fugitive Slave Act Margaret Garner, Thomas Satterwhite Noble painting, Noble Modern Medea antique, Mathew Brady photograph Noble, anti-slavery art antique, Black history antique primary, fugitive slave story antique, slave mother kills child, Cincinnati fugitive slave, Ohio River escape antique, Black women's history antique, Charleston firemen Union flag, Union prisoners cemetery Charleston, Civil War reconciliation antique, newsboys lodging house, New York newsboys antique, Children's Aid Society antique, Charles Loring Brace newsboys, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, anti-slavery collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264015921372,"sku":null,"price":75.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/4ce22626-il_fullxfull.8363014853_uorh.jpg?v=1786496654"},{"product_id":"1867-alaska-sewards-folly-three-black-soldiers-otsego-sugar-rush-may-4","title":"1867 Alaska \"Seward's Folly,\" Three Black Soldiers, Otsego Sugar Rush — May 4","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · May 4, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue published just weeks after the Alaska Purchase treaty was signed — three illustrations documenting America's vast new Russian territory alongside three powerful prints tracing the arc of Black military service from contraband to veteran. A primary document of two of the most consequential events of 1867: the acquisition of Alaska and the Reconstruction-era recognition of Black soldiers' service.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏔️ ALASKA — \"SEWARD'S FOLLY\"\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏔️ FULL PAGE — \"OUR RUSSIAN POSSESSION\" — THREE ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDING MT. ST. ELIAS AND NEW ARCHANGEL\nA full-page documentary of America's extraordinary new territory — published just weeks after Secretary of State William Seward signed the Alaska Purchase treaty with Russia on March 30, 1867, acquiring 586,412 square miles of territory for $7.2 million — roughly two cents per acre. Critics immediately dubbed it \"Seward's Folly\" and \"Walrussia,\" convinced that ice and wilderness were all America had bought. The three illustrations — including a view of Mt. St. Elias (at 18,008 feet, the second-highest peak in North America) and New Archangel (modern Sitka), the principal town and capital of Russian America — are among the earliest American press illustrations of the territory that would become the 49th state in 1959. Published at the moment of maximum public skepticism and ridicule, this full page is a primary document of Alaska's acquisition and American territorial expansion. A significant piece of Alaska history, American expansionism, and one of the great bargains in the history of real estate.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ THREE PORTRAITS OF BLACK MILITARY SERVICE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎖️ THREE PRINTS — \"THE CONTRABAND,\" \"THE RECRUIT,\" AND \"THE VETERAN\"\nThree portraits tracing the full arc of Black military experience in the Civil War era — from fugitive slave to soldier to seasoned veteran — published during the heart of Congressional Reconstruction as the nation debated the rights of the men who had fought for it. The three figures represent a deliberate narrative sequence: the Contraband, the formerly enslaved person who sought refuge behind Union lines and whose labor supported the Army in the early war years; the Recruit, the Black man who answered the call to arms in the United States Colored Troops; and the Veteran, the battle-hardened soldier who had proven Black Americans' capacity for citizenship through sacrifice. Together the three portraits make an extraordinarily significant piece of Black American military history, Reconstruction-era civil rights documentation, and visual arguments for Black suffrage — published in the same months that Congress was forcing through the Military Reconstruction Acts. A significant and highly collectible set of Black Americana and Civil War history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🍁 INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🍁 HALF PAGE — \"SCENE IN A SUGAR RUSH, OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK\"\nA half-page illustration of maple sugar production in Otsego County, New York — a vivid piece of New York State agricultural and seasonal history, capturing the maple sugaring tradition that was a fixture of rural upstate New York life. Otsego County, home of Cooperstown and James Fenimore Cooper's fictional Natty Bumppo, was one of the great maple sugar regions of the state.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· May 4, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAlaska purchase 1867, Seward's Folly Alaska antique, Our Russian Possession, Mt St Elias Alaska antique, New Archangel Sitka antique, Alaska territory antique, Russian America 1867, Seward Alaska purchase antique, Alaska acquisition primary, Sitka capital Alaska antique, Alaska second highest peak, Black soldier Contraband Recruit Veteran, Black military history antique, three Black soldiers antique, Contraband recruit veteran prints, USCT Black soldiers antique, Black military service antique, Civil War Black soldiers antique, Reconstruction Black military, freedmen soldiers antique, Black Americana military, maple sugar Otsego County, sugar rush New York antique, Otsego County maple sugaring, Cooperstown New York antique, maple syrup Victorian antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Alaska history collector, Black history collector, Civil War military collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264015888604,"sku":null,"price":37.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/7f89e04e-il_fullxfull.8315105966_axfs.jpg?v=1786496658"},{"product_id":"1867-black-soldier-votes-nast-we-accept-the-situation-peabody-fund-apr-13","title":"1867 Black Soldier Votes — Nast \"We Accept the Situation,\" Peabody Fund — Apr 13","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · April 13, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — Thomas Nast's \"We Accept the Situation,\" held by the Library of Congress, showing a Black Union soldier holding his ballot as a disgruntled ex-Confederate stands beside a torn \"No vote\" slip; the Peabody Education Fund trustees including Grant and Farragut; the Fenian uprising in Ireland; and African fashions. A primary document of the Reconstruction era's central conflict over Black voting rights, confirmed by the Library of Congress.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ THOMAS NAST — \"WE ACCEPT THE SITUATION\"\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗳️ THOMAS NAST: \"WE ACCEPT THE SITUATION\" — BLACK UNION SOLDIER VOTES\nA Thomas Nast political cartoon held by the Library of Congress (Call Number: Illus. in AP2.H32 1867, Harper's Weekly v. 11, no. 537, p. 240) and documented by the House Divided Project at Dickinson College — depicting a Black Union soldier proudly holding a slip of paper labeled \"A vote\" while a disgruntled former Confederate soldier, frowning with hands in his pockets, stands before a broadsheet of the Military Bill with a torn slip labeled \"No vote\" at his feet. Published April 13, 1867 — just six weeks after the Military Reconstruction Act mandated Black male suffrage in the former Confederate states — this cartoon distills the entire constitutional confrontation of Reconstruction into two figures. The Black veteran who bled for the Union now holds the ballot that the Confederacy fought to prevent; the defeated rebel who lost the war now loses the vote as well. The cartoon is used today in AP U.S. History and college courses as a primary document of Reconstruction-era political thought, with curriculum materials produced by Teachers Pay Teachers and multiple university programs. A significant and historically documented piece of Thomas Nast's Reconstruction work, Black American history, and civil rights history — held in the Library of Congress collection.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎓 THE PEABODY EDUCATION FUND\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎓 FULL PAGE — \"GEORGE PEABODY AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PEABODY EDUCATION FUND\" — INCLUDING ULYSSES S. GRANT AND DAVID FARRAGUT\nA full-page illustration of George Peabody and the trustees of the Peabody Education Fund — the landmark philanthropic foundation established in 1867 with a $3.5 million gift from the Massachusetts-born London banker George Peabody to promote education in the post-Civil War South. The board included two of the most celebrated Americans of the era: General Ulysses S. Grant — just months from the Republican presidential nomination — and Admiral David Farragut, hero of Mobile Bay and the first Admiral in U.S. history. The Peabody Education Fund became one of the most significant educational philanthropies of the 19th century, establishing teacher training institutions and schools across the South and directly influencing what would become the modern Southern public school system. A significant piece of American educational history, Reconstruction philanthropy, and the careers of two Civil War heroes.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n☘️ THE FENIAN UPRISING IN IRELAND\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n☘️ FULL PAGE — \"THE FENIAN UPRISING IN IRELAND — ATTACK ON THE POLICE AT TALLAGHT\"\nA full-page illustration of the Fenian rising of March 1867 in Ireland — the uprising of the Irish Republican Brotherhood against British rule, which had culminated in the abortive attack at Tallaght, County Dublin on March 5, 1867. The rising was quickly suppressed, but it galvanized Irish nationalist sentiment worldwide and had enormous resonance among New York's large Irish immigrant community. A significant piece of Irish nationalist history and Irish American history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ FRONT PAGE — \"THE NEW HORTICULTURAL HALL, TREMONT STREET, BOSTON\"\nA front-page illustration of Boston's new Horticultural Hall — a significant piece of Boston architectural and horticultural history.\n\n🌍 ILLUSTRATION — \"CURIOUS AFRICAN FASHIONS\"\nAn illustration of African fashions — a Victorian ethnographic piece documenting traditional dress from various African cultures, reflecting the era's fascination with African peoples even as European colonialism was transforming the continent.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· April 13, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nNast We Accept the Situation, Black soldier votes Nast, Library of Congress Nast voting, We Accept Situation 1867, Black Union soldier ballot, Confederate no vote Nast, Reconstruction voting cartoon, Military Bill Nast cartoon, Black suffrage Nast 1867, Reconstruction Act voting antique, civil rights primary Nast, House Divided Nast cartoon, Peabody Education Fund trustees, George Peabody education antique, Peabody Fund Grant Farragut, Grant Farragut trustees antique, Peabody Southern education, Reconstruction philanthropy antique, Farragut Grant trustees, Fenian uprising Ireland 1867, Fenian rising Tallaght, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish nationalism antique, Fenian revolt Harper's Weekly, Irish American history antique, Horticultural Hall Boston, African fashions Victorian antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Nast collector, Black history collector, Irish history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264016052444,"sku":null,"price":46.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/048d4027-il_fullxfull.8315045222_p9qc.jpg?v=1786496654"},{"product_id":"1867-nast-st-patricks-day-reconstruction-commanders-centerfold-apr-6","title":"1867 Nast St. Patrick's Day, Reconstruction Commanders Centerfold — Apr 6","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · April 6, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — a double-page centerfold of all seven Reconstruction military district commanders including Grant and Sheridan, a Thomas Nast St. Patrick's Day illustration, an Irish riot, a Paris grand ball, and Prince Edward Island winter mail. A primary document of the military architecture of Congressional Reconstruction at the moment of its establishment.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎖️ THE RECONSTRUCTION COMMANDERS — CENTERFOLD\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE NEW MILITARY COMMANDERS IN THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES\" — SEVEN PORTRAITS\nA double-page centerfold of all seven military commanders appointed to govern the five Reconstruction military districts under the Military Reconstruction Act of March 2, 1867 — published just five weeks after the act's passage, making this a primary document of the military architecture of Congressional Reconstruction at its birth. The seven commanders portrayed are among the most celebrated soldiers of the Civil War:\n\n**General Ulysses S. Grant** — General of the Army and future 18th President of the United States, overseeing all Reconstruction military operations.\n\n**Major General Philip H. Sheridan** — Hero of the Shenandoah Valley and Cedar Creek, commanding the Fifth Military District (Louisiana and Texas). Sheridan's harsh governance of Louisiana — he removed the governor and called President Johnson \"an impediment to the restoration of peace\" — made him a hero to Radical Republicans and led to his transfer to the Great Plains.\n\n**Major General Daniel E. Sickles** — One-legged hero of Gettysburg (where he lost his leg commanding the III Corps), commanding the Second Military District (North and South Carolina).\n\n**Major General John Pope** — Commander of the Third Military District (Georgia, Alabama, Florida), who aggressively promoted Black suffrage and voter registration.\n\n**Major General George H. Thomas** — \"The Rock of Chickamauga,\" one of the most respected Union commanders, commanding the Fourth Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas).\n\n**Brevet Major General John M. Schofield** — Commanding the First Military District (Virginia).\n\n**Brevet Major General E.O.C. Ord** — Commanding the Fourth Military District alongside Thomas.\n\nTogether these seven men held the military power to enforce Reconstruction across the former Confederacy. A significant and very displayable piece of Reconstruction history, Civil War military history, and American political history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n☘️ THOMAS NAST — ST. PATRICK'S DAY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n☘️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"ST. PATRICK'S DAY 1867 — THE DAY WE CELEBRATE\"\nA full-page Thomas Nast illustration of St. Patrick's Day 1867 — capturing the holiday as celebrated by New York's enormous Irish immigrant community, the largest ethnic group in the city by 1867. Nast's complex relationship with Irish Americans — he frequently caricatured them as brutish and drunk while also documenting their community life — makes this illustration a nuanced and significant piece of Irish American history and Victorian social documentation.\n\n🍺 ILLUSTRATION — \"IRISH RIOT, ST. PATRICK'S DAY 1867\"\nA companion illustration of an Irish riot on St. Patrick's Day 1867 — a vivid and historically specific piece of Irish American urban history, capturing the violence that occasionally accompanied the holiday's celebrations in the tense ethnic neighborhoods of Reconstruction-era New York.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎭 FRONT PAGE — \"APRIL FOOL\"\nA two-thirds page front-page April Fool's illustration — a warm and humorous piece of Victorian American holiday culture.\n\n💃 FULL PAGE — \"GRAND BALL OF THE PREFECT OF THE SEINE, HOTEL DE VILLE, PARIS\"\nA full-page illustration of a grand ball at the Hotel de Ville in Paris — hosted by the Prefect of the Seine during the height of the Second Empire, one of the most spectacular social events in European high society. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Belle Époque French social history.\n\n📮 HALF PAGE — \"WINTER MAIL SERVICE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND\"\nA half-page illustration of winter mail delivery on Prince Edward Island — a vivid piece of Canadian Maritime history, documenting the hardy mail carriers who crossed the frozen Northumberland Strait to maintain communication with the mainland.\n\n🚫🍺 FOUR PORTRAITS — \"THE ORIGINAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES IN NEW YORK\"\nFour portraits of the founding figures of New York's temperance movement — Rev. L. Armstrong, Gardiner Stow, James Mott, and Dr. J.B. Clark — a significant piece of American reform and religious history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· April 6, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nReconstruction military commanders, insurrectionary states commanders, Reconstruction district commanders, Grant Sheridan Sickles centerfold, Civil War generals Reconstruction, Grant Reconstruction commander, Sheridan Louisiana commander, Sickles Reconstruction Carolinas, George Thomas Rock Chickamauga, Pope Reconstruction Georgia, Schofield Virginia commander, Military Reconstruction Act 1867, Nast St Patrick's Day 1867, Thomas Nast Irish, St Patrick's Day Victorian, Irish riot St Patrick's Day, New York Irish community, Irish American history antique, Nast Irish illustration, Irish New York 1867, Paris Hotel de Ville ball, Second Empire grand ball, Paris grand ball antique, Prince Edward Island winter mail, Canadian Maritime history, temperance advocates New York, temperance movement antique, April Fool Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Reconstruction collector, Civil War generals collector, Irish history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264016085212,"sku":null,"price":67.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/bd4911b9-il_fullxfull.8362914409_bj1x.jpg?v=1786496654"},{"product_id":"1867-nast-amphitheatrum-johnsonianum-freedmens-schools-atlanta-mar-30","title":"1867 Nast \"Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum,\" Freedmen's Schools Atlanta — Mar 30","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 30, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nOne of the most historically significant issues in the entire Harper's Weekly run — Thomas Nast's \"Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum,\" one of the most celebrated political cartoons in American history, depicting President Johnson as Nero at the New Orleans Massacre, appearing alongside Freedmen's schools in Atlanta as a front page. A primary document of Reconstruction-era civil rights advocacy at its most powerful and its most tender simultaneously.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎨 THOMAS NAST — \"AMPHITHEATRUM JOHNSONIANUM\"\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🐯 DOUBLE-PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"AMPHITHEATRUM JOHNSONIANUM — MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS AT NEW ORLEANS\"\nOne of the most celebrated and historically significant political cartoons in American history — a double-page Thomas Nast illustration depicting President Andrew Johnson as the Emperor Nero at an ancient Roman amphitheater, \"figuratively fiddling with the Constitution\" while martyrs — Black Americans — are slaughtered in the arena below by Confederate veterans and New Orleans police. The cartoon refers to the New Orleans Massacre of July 30, 1866, in which at least 34 Black freedmen and 3 white Radical Republicans were killed when Confederate veterans and police attacked a peaceful constitutional convention. Johnson had effectively encouraged the violence by withdrawing federal protection and signaling his opposition to Black political participation. Nast's response — casting Johnson as Nero, the monstrous emperor who fiddled while Rome burned — was the most devastating single political cartoon of the Reconstruction era. The cartoon is documented by Wikipedia with its own dedicated article, held in major museum collections, and cited by historians as one of the most influential works of political art in American history. Published on March 30, 1867, measuring 20½ inches wide by 13⅝ inches high — a double-page spread of extraordinary size and power. An original print in a complete original issue — not a reproduction — of one of the canonical works of American political art. An essential piece for any collection of Nast, Reconstruction history, Black American history, or American political art.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ FREEDMEN'S SCHOOLS — ATLANTA \u0026amp; WASHINGTON\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎓 FRONT PAGE — \"FREEDMEN'S SCHOOL AT ATLANTA\" AND \"FREEDMEN'S FARM SCHOOL NEAR WASHINGTON\" WITH ARTICLE\nA front-page illustration and article documenting the Freedmen's schools in Atlanta, Georgia and near Washington, D.C. — the educational institutions established by the Freedmen's Bureau and Northern missionaries to provide formerly enslaved people with the literacy and skills they had been legally denied under slavery. The Freedmen's schools of Atlanta would eventually give rise to the Atlanta University Center — today home to Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and others. Published alongside Nast's savage indictment of Johnson's complicity in anti-Black violence, this front-page illustration of Black education offers a profound counterpoint — the aspiration and humanity of freedpeople building new lives even as they faced violent opposition. A significant piece of Black educational history, Atlanta history, and Reconstruction-era African American life.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎲 INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎲 HALF PAGE — \"THE GAME OF KENO\"\nA half-page illustration of Keno — the lottery-style gambling game that was enormously popular in American saloons, gambling halls, and fairgrounds throughout the Gilded Age, and a direct ancestor of modern Bingo. A vivid piece of Victorian American gaming culture.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· March 30, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nNast Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum, Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum Nast, Nast Johnson Nero cartoon, New Orleans Massacre Nast, Nast double page centerfold, Nast Reconstruction masterpiece, Johnson Nero political cartoon, New Orleans Massacre 1866, Nast civil rights cartoon, Reconstruction primary political art, Nast Wikipedia article, Nast museum collection, Nast Black history antique, Thomas Nast Reconstruction, freedmen school Atlanta, Atlanta Freedmen's Bureau, Atlanta University history, Black education Reconstruction, freedmen school Washington, Freedmen's Bureau education, Atlanta Black schools antique, Morehouse Spelman history, Clark Atlanta history, Black education primary, freedmen literacy antique, keno gambling game antique, Gilded Age gambling keno, Victorian gambling saloon, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Nast collector, Black history collector, Reconstruction collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264016117980,"sku":null,"price":43.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/bfd9cf3b-il_fullxfull.8362903111_rdlc.jpg?v=1786496655"},{"product_id":"1867-black-man-votes-ballot-box-predates-first-vote-indian-delegation-mar-16","title":"1867 Black Man Votes \"Ballot Box\" Predates \"First Vote\" Indian Delegation Mar 16","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 16, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — \"The Negro at the Ballot Box,\" showing a Black man voting, published eight months before the famous \"The First Vote\" of November 1867 and just two weeks after Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act mandating Black male suffrage in the South. Combined with Indian delegations meeting the President and an early New York Fire Department hose carriage, this is a primary document of civil rights history at its most urgent moment.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ \"THE NEGRO AT THE BALLOT BOX\" — HISTORIC CIVIL RIGHTS PRINT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗳️ HALF PAGE — \"THE NEGRO AT THE BALLOT BOX\"\nA half-page illustration of a Black man at the ballot box — published on March 16, 1867, just fourteen days after Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act on March 2, mandating that former Confederate states hold new constitutional conventions with Black male voters participating. This illustration predates the celebrated \"The First Vote\" (A.R. Waud, November 16, 1867) — the most famous image of Black suffrage in American history — by a full eight months, making it one of the earliest published illustrations of Black male voting rights in the American illustrated press. Published at the exact moment Congress was forcing the issue of Black suffrage upon the South over President Johnson's fierce opposition, \"The Negro at the Ballot Box\" is a primary document of the Reconstruction-era civil rights movement at its most pivotal legislative moment. A significant, rare, and historically important piece of Black American history and civil rights history — and a companion piece to the \"First Vote\" for any serious collection.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🪶 INDIAN DELEGATIONS AT WASHINGTON\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n👤 FULL PAGE — \"INDIAN DELEGATIONS AT WASHINGTON — PRESENTATION TO THE PRESIDENT\"\nA full-page illustration of Native American delegations being presented to President Andrew Johnson at the White House — a significant piece of Native American diplomatic history and federal Indian policy in the immediate post-Civil War era. The practice of bringing tribal leaders to Washington for formal presentations to the President was one of the central rituals of 19th-century American Indian diplomacy, simultaneously honoring and patronizing the sovereign nations it purported to treat with. A significant piece of Native American history and Washington political history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🚒 NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🚒 ILLUSTRATION — \"EARLY HOSE CARRIAGE OF THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT\"\nAn illustration of an early hose carriage of the New York Fire Department — a significant piece of New York City fire service history, documenting the horse-drawn equipment of one of the world's great urban fire departments in the years before steam-powered apparatus became standard. A vivid piece of FDNY and New York City history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· March 16, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nNegro at the Ballot Box, Black man voting 1867, Black suffrage antique, predates First Vote, early Black voting print, Reconstruction voting rights, Black ballot box antique, civil rights 1867 primary, First Vote precursor, Black suffrage Reconstruction, African American voting antique, Reconstruction Act Black vote, Congressional Reconstruction suffrage, freedmen ballot box antique, Black history voting antique, Indian delegations Washington, Native American President meeting, Indian delegation White House, Native American diplomacy antique, Andrew Johnson Indian meeting, federal Indian policy antique, New York Fire Department, FDNY hose carriage antique, early fire department carriage, New York fire service history, Victorian fire department antique, horse drawn fire carriage, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, civil rights collector, Native American collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264016773340,"sku":null,"price":46.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/cbaaa8a4-il_fullxfull.8297036338_pkzu.jpg?v=1786496662"},{"product_id":"1867-cotton-plantation-black-workers-centerfold-crete-war-feb-2","title":"1867 Cotton Plantation Black Workers Centerfold, Crete War — Feb 2","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · February 2, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically significant Reconstruction-era issue — a twelve-scene double-page centerfold of Black workers on a cotton plantation covering the full cycle of cotton cultivation, the war in Crete with map and views, fires in Wisconsin and Albany, a great snowstorm, and a Canadian skating rink. A primary document of Black agricultural labor in the post-emancipation South, published at the height of Congressional Reconstruction debates.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ BLACK LABOR ON THE COTTON PLANTATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌿 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"SCENES ON A COTTON PLANTATION\" — TWELVE PRINTS\nA significant and comprehensive double-page centerfold of twelve scenes depicting Black workers at various stages of cotton cultivation — picking, hoeing, working the cotton gin, and other plantation tasks. Published in February 1867, this centerfold documents the cotton plantation economy of the post-emancipation South at one of its most contested moments: the first Reconstruction Act had not yet passed (it would come in March 1867), and Black workers across the South were still laboring under the exploitative sharecropping and contract labor systems that had emerged to replace slavery while preserving much of its economic structure. The twelve scenes — from field work to gin house — form a comprehensive visual documentary of Black agricultural labor that is both a primary document of Southern economic history and a piece of Black Americana of the highest historical significance. The cotton gin scenes are particularly rare. A significant, displayable, and very collectible piece of African American history and Southern Reconstruction history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌍 THE WAR IN CRETE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚔️ ILLUSTRATIONS \u0026amp; MAP — \"THE WAR IN CRETE\" — INCLUDING MAP OF THE ISLAND, \"A GREEK PRIEST,\" AND \"VIEW OF CANEA, THE PRINCIPAL PORT OF CRETE\"\nA significant multi-piece documentary of the Cretan revolt of 1866-69 — the uprising of the Greek Christian population of Crete against Ottoman rule, which had been ongoing since August 1866 and was generating enormous sympathy across Europe and America. The illustrations include a map of Crete, a portrait of a Greek Orthodox priest, and a view of Canea (Chania) — the principal Ottoman port and administrative center of the island. The Cretan revolt prefigured the broader Eastern Question that would culminate in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and the eventual union of Crete with Greece in 1913. A significant piece of Victorian Greek and Ottoman history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏒 TWO FRONT PAGE VIEWS — \"ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, SKATING RINK\"\nTwo front-page views of the St. John, New Brunswick skating rink — a significant piece of Canadian winter leisure and architectural history, capturing the indoor skating rink culture that was sweeping North America in the 1860s.\n\n🔥 ILLUSTRATION — \"BURNING OF THE HYATT HOUSE, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN\"\nAn illustration of the dramatic fire that destroyed the Hyatt House hotel in Janesville, Wisconsin — a vivid piece of Midwest Victorian disaster history.\n\n🔥 ILLUSTRATION — \"FIRE IN ALBANY\"\nAn illustration of a fire in Albany, New York — a significant piece of New York State fire and urban history.\n\n❄️ ILLUSTRATION — \"THE GREAT SNOW STORM\"\nAn illustration of the great snowstorm — a vivid piece of Victorian American winter weather history, capturing one of the severe storms that regularly paralyzed the Eastern Seaboard.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· February 2, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\ncotton plantation twelve scenes, Black workers cotton plantation, African American cotton picking, cotton gin Black workers, plantation scenes centerfold, Black Americana Reconstruction, freedpeople cotton South, sharecropper cotton antique, cotton plantation twelve prints, African American agricultural, Black labor antique print, Reconstruction South cotton, cotton picking hoeing antique, cotton gin illustration, Black history antique centerfold, war in Crete 1867, Cretan revolt Ottoman, Crete map illustration, Canea principal port Crete, Greek priest Crete, Cretan uprising antique, Ottoman Greece 1867, Crete Greek revolt antique, St John New Brunswick skating, Canadian skating rink antique, Victorian indoor skating, Hyatt House Janesville fire, Albany fire Victorian, great snowstorm antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, cotton plantation collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017133788,"sku":null,"price":98.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/9dccc3c8-il_fullxfull.8338640381_crhp.jpg?v=1786496670"},{"product_id":"1867-thomas-nast-emancipation-proclamation-frederick-douglass-letter-jan-12","title":"1867 Thomas Nast Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass Letter — Jan 12","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · January 12, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nOne of the most historically significant issues in the entire 1867 run — a Thomas Nast full-page illustration on the Civil Rights Bill and Emancipation Proclamation, a letter to the editor containing a remarkable eyewitness account of Frederick Douglass on a railroad train, New York street festivities, the Prince Imperial of France, monuments to Jackson and Vicksburg, New York foundlings, and ice skating. A primary document of Reconstruction-era civil rights at its most urgent and eloquent.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ THOMAS NAST — CIVIL RIGHTS \u0026amp; EMANCIPATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n✊ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"CIVIL RIGHTS BILL — EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION\" — TWO VIEWS OF SLAVERY\nA handsome and displayable full-page Thomas Nast illustration on the Civil Rights Bill and Emancipation Proclamation — showing two views of slavery, the before and after of emancipation, as Congress was actively debating the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment that would make its provisions constitutional. Nast's visual language was more powerful than any editorial: this two-part composition places the horror of slavery in direct contrast with the promise of freedom, published as that promise was being contested in every Southern state. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 — the first in American history to define citizenship and affirm equal protection under the law — had been passed over President Johnson's veto in April 1866. In January 1867 Congress was drafting the Reconstruction Acts that would enforce it. A significant and very displayable piece of American civil rights history and Thomas Nast's career as the conscience of the Reconstruction press.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ FREDERICK DOUGLASS — EYEWITNESS LETTER\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📰 LETTER TO THE EDITOR — \"FREDERICK DOUGLASS\"\nA letter to the editor describing a remarkable encounter with Frederick Douglass aboard a railroad train — one of the most vivid pieces of Douglass ephemera in the Harper's Weekly run. The correspondent writes of being convinced that \"there was but one man of his color who could talk as he did, and that was Frederick Douglass,\" and confesses that his thoughts were \"divided between wonder and admiration for his genius and culture, and wonder and contempt for the criminal ignorance which persistently endeavors to withhold from him and his race the rightful appurtenances of their manhood.\" Published in January 1867 — the same month Douglass was lobbying Congress for Black male suffrage — this letter captures the national fascination with and reverence for the most famous Black American of the 19th century, in the voice of a white observer moved to an extraordinary statement of moral clarity. A significant primary document of Frederick Douglass's public presence and impact.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎉 FULL PAGE — \"HOLIDAY STREET FANTASTICALS IN NEW YORK CITY\"\nA full-page illustration of New York City's holiday street celebrations — the rowdy, carnivalesque street parades and masquerades that were a beloved and chaotic feature of New York's holiday culture in the Gilded Age. A vivid piece of New York City social history.\n\n🗽 TWO QUARTER PAGES — \"STATUE OF GEN. JACKSON, WASHINGTON\" AND \"THE NEW VICKSBURG MONUMENT\"\nTwo quarter-page illustrations of new monuments — the Jackson statue in Washington and the new Vicksburg monument, both significant pieces of Civil War commemorative history at a moment when the war's memory was being actively contested between North and South.\n\n👶 TWO QUARTER PAGES — \"THE FOUNDLING\" AND \"NEW YORK FOUNDLINGS\"\nTwo quarter-page illustrations accompanying an article on New York's foundling children — a significant piece of Gilded Age urban poverty and social welfare history, as the New York Foundling Hospital was just being established.\n\n🏂 HALF PAGE — \"FIRST LESSON IN SKATING\"\nA charming half-page illustration of a child's first skating lesson — a warm and appealing piece of Victorian winter leisure life.\n\n🎉 HALF PAGE — \"THE CHILDREN'S PARTY — WAITING FOR SUPPER\"\nA warm half-page illustration of children waiting for supper at a party — a delightful piece of Victorian domestic and holiday life.\n\n👑 QUARTER PAGE — \"THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE\"\nA quarter-page illustration of Napoleon III's young son, the Prince Imperial — Eugène Louis, who would die tragically at age 23 in the Zulu War in 1879. A significant piece of French imperial history.\n\n🚢 NEARLY HALF PAGE — \"THE LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK STEAM PACKET-SHIP 'CHICAGO'\"\nA nearly half-page illustration of the steamship Chicago — a significant piece of transatlantic steamship history and the growing Liverpool-New York passenger trade.\n\n📈 ONE-THIRD PAGE — \"A GROUP ON THE STAIRWAY OF THE 'LONG ROOM,' AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE\"\nA one-third page illustration of the New York Stock Exchange's Long Room — a vivid piece of Gilded Age financial history and the center of American capitalism.\n\n👥 HALF PAGE — \"CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, ACCORDING TO POPULAR IMPRESSIONS\"\nA half-page composite of smaller illustrations showing various \"types\" of American citizens — a significant and complex piece of Victorian American social caricature and identity.\n\n📖 FRONT PAGE — \"ISAAC WATTS AND HIS MOTHER AT THE PRISON-GATE\"\nA front-page illustration accompanying an article about Isaac Watts — the great English hymnwriter and poet, author of \"O God, Our Help in Ages Past\" and \"Joy to the World,\" depicted at a prison gate with his mother.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· January 12, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nThomas Nast Civil Rights Emancipation, Nast Emancipation Proclamation, Nast Civil Rights Bill, Nast slavery two views, Nast Reconstruction civil rights, Thomas Nast displayable print, Nast emancipation antique, Civil Rights Act 1866 antique, Emancipation Proclamation art, Reconstruction civil rights primary, Frederick Douglass letter, Frederick Douglass railroad encounter, Douglass genius culture letter, Frederick Douglass Harper's Weekly, Black history Douglass antique, Douglass eyewitness account, Reconstruction era Douglass, New York holiday fantasticals, street masquerade New York, Jackson statue Washington, Vicksburg monument Civil War, New York foundlings children, Prince Imperial France Napoleon, Liverpool Chicago steamship, New York Stock Exchange Long Room, citizens United States caricature, Isaac Watts mother prison, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Nast collector, Douglass collector, civil rights history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017199324,"sku":null,"price":123.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/2e617843-il_fullxfull.8338605005_ek3x.jpg?v=1786496668"},{"product_id":"1898-mckinley-at-tuskegee-atlanta-night-at-the-opera-chicago-rail-dec-31","title":"1898 McKinley at Tuskegee \u0026 Atlanta, Night at the Opera, Chicago Rail — Dec 31","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 31, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically significant year-end issue closing 1898 — President McKinley's visit to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute documented in two full pages, a Night at the Opera double-page centerfold, Chicago's railroad corruption fight, and New Year's Eve. A primary document of one of the most consequential presidential visits to a Black institution in American history, in the last issue of the year that transformed America into a world power.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ McKINLEY VISITS TUSKEGEE \u0026amp; BOOKER T. WASHINGTON\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎓 TWO FULL PAGES — \"PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S SOUTHERN TRIP — SCENES DURING HIS VISITS TO TUSKEGEE AND ATLANTA\" AND \"THE CELEBRATION AT ATLANTA\"\nTwo full pages documenting President William McKinley's historic visit to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on December 16, 1898 — the school founded and led by Booker T. Washington, the most prominent Black educator in America. McKinley traveled 140 miles out of his way from Atlanta, bringing his family, members of his Cabinet, and generals Wheeler, Lawton, and Shafter aboard special trains. More than 6,000 people gathered at Tuskegee to receive them. McKinley toured the school grounds, witnessed a student parade, and spoke in the chapel, praising the Institute for sowing \"the seeds of good citizenship.\" For Booker T. Washington, who had personally lobbied McKinley to make the visit, it was the fulfillment of his central ambition — to \"build up a school that would be of so much service to the country that the President of the United States would one day come to see it.\" The visit was also a deliberate political signal in the immediate aftermath of the Wilmington, North Carolina race massacre of November 1898, and a gesture of reconciliation between North and South during the Atlanta Peace Jubilee. These two full pages are a primary document of one of the most historically charged presidential visits to a Black educational institution in American history — a significant piece of Black history, educational history, and Reconstruction's long aftermath.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎭 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎭 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"A NIGHT AT THE OPERA\"\nA double-page centerfold of the opera — the great social institution of Gilded Age New York, where the Metropolitan Opera's golden horseshoe boxes housed the most powerful families in American society. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Gilded Age high society and musical culture.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🚋 CHICAGO — THE RAILROAD RING\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ FULL PAGE — \"THE COMMON COUNCIL OF CHICAGO — THE STORM CENTRE OF THE RECENT FIGHT AGAINST THE SURFACE RAILROAD RING\"\nA full-page illustration of the Chicago Common Council — the city's governing body at the center of one of the great municipal corruption battles of the Gilded Age, in which reformers fought the powerful surface railroad franchise holders who had bribed their way to control of Chicago's streetcar system. A significant piece of Chicago political history and Gilded Age urban corruption.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📬 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"ON HIS HANDS\"\nA full front-page illustration — a pointed commentary on the responsibilities that America now carried as it entered 1899 with Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam all under its flag.\n\n🥂 HALF PAGE — \"NEW YEAR'S EVE\"\nA half-page New Year's Eve illustration closing the final issue of 1898 — the year that transformed the United States from a continental republic into a global empire, in a single stroke of remarkable historical acceleration.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· December 31, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nMcKinley Tuskegee visit, McKinley Booker Washington, President McKinley Tuskegee 1898, Booker T Washington president visit, Tuskegee Institute McKinley, seeds good citizenship McKinley, Black education history antique, Tuskegee primary document, Atlanta Peace Jubilee McKinley, Wilmington massacre aftermath, McKinley Southern trip 1898, Black history education antique, Tuskegee Institute history, Booker Washington school president, Night at the Opera centerfold, Metropolitan Opera Gilded Age, opera New York 1898 antique, Gilded Age opera social, Chicago railroad ring corruption, Chicago Common Council, surface railroad franchise Chicago, Chicago Gilded Age corruption, New Year's Eve 1898, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Black history collector, Booker Washington collector, Tuskegee collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017395932,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/9fa94c7d-il_fullxfull.8281261104_kksj.jpg?v=1786496674"},{"product_id":"1865-harpers-weekly-amy-spain-hanging-freedmens-village-naval-festival-sept-30","title":"1865 Harper's Weekly — Amy Spain Hanging, Freedmen's Village, Naval Festival, Sept 30","description":"1865 Harper's Weekly — Amy Spain Hanging, Freedmen's Village, Naval Festival, Sept 30\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis September 30, 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly arrives at one of the most fraught moments in American history — the first months of Reconstruction, when the fate of four million formerly enslaved people hung in the balance. Unflinching in its documentation of racial violence and the fragile promise of freedom, this issue is an essential primary source for collectors of African American history, Civil War aftermath, and Reconstruction-era Americana.\n\n⚖️ AMY SPAIN — A WITNESS TO RACIAL VIOLENCE\nThe most historically significant image in this issue is a nearly quarter-page print: \"View of Darlington Court House and the Sycamore Tree Where Amy Spain, the Negro Slave, Was Hung by the Citizens of Darlington, South Carolina,\" accompanied by a full article on Amy Spain beneath the image. Amy Spain was a young enslaved woman executed by a mob for celebrating the arrival of Union troops — one of the earliest and most chilling documented acts of racial terror in the Reconstruction period. This print and its accompanying article stand as a rare piece of contemporaneous journalism bearing witness to the violence facing Black Americans in the immediate aftermath of emancipation.\n\n🗽 THE FREEDMEN'S VILLAGE\nA smaller but deeply significant print documents \"The Freedmen's Village, Hampton, Virginia\" — one of the most important communities established for formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War, located on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's confiscated Arlington estate.\n\n⛵ FRONT PAGE — OCEAN YACHT RACE\nThe front page features a sweeping large print of \"The Ocean Yacht Race Between the 'Fleetwing' and the 'Henrietta'\" — an early document of America's emerging Gilded Age leisure culture among the elite.\n\n🌊 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — INTERNATIONAL NAVAL FESTIVAL AT CHERBOURG\nThe stunning double-page centerfold presents \"The International Naval Festival at Cherbourg — The English and French Fleet Firing a Salute in Honor of the Emperor's Fete-Day,\" a grand and displayable scene of European naval pageantry just months after the Civil War's close.\n\n🏛️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS \u0026amp; REPORTING\n\nFull page — \"The Dock Race Between the Double-enders 'Algonquin' and 'Winoski' at the Foot of Delancey Street, East River\"\n\"The Turner Festival at Cincinnati, Ohio — Exercises at Parker's Grove\" and \"The Turner Festival — The Procession\"\n\"Buoy Showing the Last Known Position of the Atlantic Cable\" — the era's greatest technological obsession\n\n\n🎭 BACK PAGE CARTOON\n\"Poor Mrs. Grundy!\" — a satirical commentary on postwar social mores and the shifting conventions of Reconstruction-era American society.\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Full 16-page issue, including the double-page centerfold naval scene.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from September 30, 1865 — not a modern reproduction.\nCondition Report: Presents well for its 161-year age. The Amy Spain print and article, Freedmen's Village image, and centerfold naval scene are all clear and legible.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 161-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1865 Harpers Weekly, Amy Spain Hanging Darlington, Reconstruction Era Racial Violence, Freedmen's Village Hampton Virginia, African American History Primary Source, Reconstruction Newspaper 1865, Civil War Aftermath, Emancipation Reconstruction, Antique Newspaper 1865, 19th Century Americana, Ocean Yacht Race 1865, Cherbourg Naval Festival, Atlantic Cable 1865 Sonnet 4.6","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017920220,"sku":null,"price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/b9bc6af1-il_fullxfull.7814810090_b216.jpg?v=1786496679"},{"product_id":"1898-9th-cavalry-buffalo-soldiers-battle-las-guasimas-rough-riders-miles-jul-9","title":"1898 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, Battle Las Guasimas Rough Riders, Miles Jul 9","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · July 9, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAn exceptional Spanish-American War issue — the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers at Port Tampa, the Rough Riders' stand at Las Guasimas, the invasion of Cuba double-page, General Nelson Miles commanding the Army, a bird's-eye view of Santiago, and a small portrait of Mark Twain. A primary document of one of the most significant weeks of the war, published two days after the Battle of San Juan Hill.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎖️ BUFFALO SOLDIERS — 9TH CAVALRY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎖️ FULL PAGE — \"9TH U.S. CAVALRY (COLORED), PORT TAMPA\"\nA full-page illustration of the 9th U.S. Cavalry — one of the legendary Buffalo Soldier regiments — at Port Tampa, Florida, embarking for Cuba. The 9th Cavalry had served continuously on the western frontier since its founding in 1866 as one of the Army's first Black regiments, and in 1898 it was deployed alongside the 10th Cavalry and the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign. At the Battle of Las Guasimas on June 24, reinforcements from the 9th Cavalry arrived to support the fighting; at San Juan Hill on July 1 — just eight days before this issue — the 9th and 10th Cavalry charged alongside Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the assault that became the most celebrated American military action of the war. Lieutenant John J. Pershing — the future commander of American forces in World War I — wrote of the Buffalo Soldiers: \"They fought their way into the hearts of the American people.\" Theodore Roosevelt initially praised them: \"No one can tell whether it was the Rough Riders or the men of the 9th who came forward with the greater courage.\" This Port Tampa portrait is a significant and rare piece of Black military history and Spanish-American War history — one of the most displayable Buffalo Soldier illustrations in the Harper's Weekly run.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚔️ THE BATTLE OF LAS GUASIMAS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n💥 FULL PAGE — \"THE BATTLE OF LA GUASIMAS, JUNE 24 — THE HEROIC STAND OF THE ROUGH RIDERS\"\nA dramatic full-page illustration of the Battle of Las Guasimas — the first major land engagement of the Spanish-American War, fought on June 24, 1898, just three miles inland from Siboney along the jungle trail to Santiago de Cuba. General \"Fighting Joe\" Wheeler's cavalry division — including the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry (the Rough Riders) under Colonel Leonard Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, alongside the 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers — advanced through dense jungle and came under ambush fire from a Spanish rearguard of 1,500 men under General Antero Rubín. After two hours of sharp fighting, with 16 Americans killed and 52 wounded (including the wealthy New York socialite Sergeant Hamilton Fish, one of the first to fall), the Spanish withdrew toward Santiago. The yellow press declared it a rout; in reality Wheeler had come close to a serious reverse. This illustration connects directly to the 9th Cavalry portrait in the same issue, as both regiments — the 9th and 10th Cavalry — fought alongside the Rough Riders through the entire Santiago campaign. A primary document of the first land battle of a war that would make Theodore Roosevelt president.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎖️ FULL FRONT PAGE — \"MAJOR-GENERAL NELSON MILES, U.S.A. — COMMANDING THE ARMY\"\nA full front-page portrait of General Nelson Miles — the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, who would go on to lead the Puerto Rico campaign beginning July 25, 1898. Miles was one of the most decorated officers of the Civil War and Indian Wars, and his command of the Army made him the senior military figure of the Spanish-American War. He appears in this same 1877 Harper's Weekly run as an Indian Wars frontier commander.\n\n🗺️ FULL PAGE — \"BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SANTIAGO, CUBA\"\nA full-page bird's-eye view of Santiago de Cuba — the strategic prize of the entire Cuban campaign, whose harbor held Admiral Cervera's trapped Spanish fleet. Published just days after the Battle of San Juan Hill, this view captures the city at the moment of its investment and impending surrender. Santiago surrendered on July 17, 1898.\n\n🌊 DOUBLE-PAGE — \"THE INVASION OF CUBA\"\nA double-page illustration of the American invasion of Cuba — a panoramic document of one of the defining military operations of the Spanish-American War.\n\n✍️ SMALL ILLUSTRATION — MARK TWAIN\nA small portrait of Mark Twain — one of the most prominent American voices against the Spanish-American War and American imperialism, whose presence in this issue offers a quiet counterpoint to the martial enthusiasm surrounding him. Twain would become a leading figure in the Anti-Imperialist League later in 1898. A significant piece of American literary and political history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· July 9, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 128-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, Buffalo Soldiers Port Tampa, 9th Cavalry colored troops, Buffalo Soldiers Cuba 1898, Black military Spanish American War, 9th Cavalry Spanish American War, Buffalo Soldiers Rough Riders, Battle Las Guasimas 1898, Las Guasimas Rough Riders, Rough Riders Cuba June 1898, Theodore Roosevelt Cuba, Fighting Joe Wheeler Cuba, 10th Cavalry Las Guasimas, Spanish American War first battle, Hamilton Fish Rough Rider, Santiago Cuba bird's eye view, Santiago Cuba 1898 antique, invasion Cuba double page, General Nelson Miles, Miles commanding army 1898, Mark Twain portrait 1898, Mark Twain anti-imperialism, Spanish American War Harper's Weekly, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, Spanish American War newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Buffalo Soldier collector, Spanish American War collector, Roosevelt collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264018903260,"sku":null,"price":45.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/dbd1daa8-il_fullxfull.8244769652_464s.jpg?v=1786496687"},{"product_id":"1867-horace-greeley-oration-hop-picking-ny-black-voter-registration-nc-sep-28","title":"1867 Horace Greeley Oration, Hop Picking NY, Black Voter Registration NC — Sep 28","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 28, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically varied and significant issue — Horace Greeley delivering the opening oration of the American Institute, hop picking in western New York, Black voter registration at Asheville, North Carolina during Reconstruction, and the Indianapolis Sangerfest. Strong content for collectors of Reconstruction-era political history, agricultural history, and German-American cultural history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📰 HORACE GREELEY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🗞️ FULL FRONT PAGE — \"HORACE GREELEY DELIVERING THE OPENING ORATION\" OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE\nA full front-page illustration of Horace Greeley — the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, the most widely circulated newspaper in America — delivering the opening oration of the American Institute, the prominent New York organization promoting American industry and agriculture. Greeley, who had run the Tribune since 1841 and whose weekly edition was said to be \"second only to the Bible in its influence on the Midwest,\" was one of the most recognizable and polarizing public figures in America in September 1867. Just four months earlier, his signing of Jefferson Davis's bail bond had sparked furious public backlash; his advocacy for amnesty for the South and Black suffrage simultaneously put him at odds with much of both camps. He would run for president against Grant in 1872 and die just weeks after his crushing defeat. This front-page illustration captures him at the height of his public prominence and controversy. A significant piece of American journalistic and political history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ RECONSTRUCTION — VOTER REGISTRATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📋 HALF PAGE — \"REGISTRATION AT THE SOUTH — SCENE AT ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA\"\nA half-page illustration of voter registration in Asheville, North Carolina — published during the opening phase of Congressional Reconstruction, when the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 required Southern states to register Black voters as a condition of readmission to the Union. The scene at Asheville captures a pivotal and contested moment: Black men exercising their newly established right to register to vote, under the protection of federal authority, in a former Confederate state still adjusting to the new political order. A significant primary document of Black political participation in the Reconstruction South.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌿 INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌾 FULL PAGE — \"HOP PICKING — A WESTERN NEW YORK SEPTEMBER SCENE\"\nA full-page illustration of hop picking in western New York — a significant and evocative piece of New York agricultural history. Western New York was the nation's premier hop-growing region in the 19th century, with Otsego and Madison Counties supplying much of America's brewing industry. The seasonal hop harvest, which drew large numbers of temporary workers from cities and rural areas alike, was one of the great social and economic events of the New York rural calendar. A wonderful and very frameable piece of American agricultural and seasonal life.\n\n🎵 ONE-THIRD PAGE — \"THE SANGERFEST AT INDIANAPOLIS\"\nA one-third page illustration of the Sangerfest (Singers' Festival) at Indianapolis — the great tradition of German-American choral singing that had become a significant cultural institution across the Midwest. German immigrants had transformed American musical culture in the mid-19th century, and the Sangerfests, competitive choral gatherings drawing hundreds of singers and thousands of spectators, were among the most vibrant expressions of German-American community life. A significant piece of German-American and Indianapolis cultural history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· September 28, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 173132\nPages ·············· Complete Issue · No supplement\nFormat ············· Illustrated folio newspaper\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 159-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nHorace Greeley American Institute, Horace Greeley oration 1867, New York Tribune Greeley, Greeley Harper's Weekly, Greeley Jefferson Davis bail, American Institute New York, Greeley journalist portrait, Horace Greeley political figure, voter registration Asheville NC, Black voter registration Reconstruction, Reconstruction South North Carolina, Military Reconstruction Act 1867, Black suffrage Reconstruction, freedmen voting rights, Asheville North Carolina antique, Congressional Reconstruction primary, hop picking western New York, New York hop harvest, hop picking Victorian antique, Otsego County hops, New York agricultural history, hops brewing industry Victorian, German Sangerfest Indianapolis, Indianapolis singing festival, German American choral singing, Sangerfest Victorian antique, German American culture Indiana, German immigration cultural history, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Reconstruction history collector, Black history collector, Greeley collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Reconstruction era ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264020508892,"sku":null,"price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/3b86854d-il_fullxfull.8260550903_4qe8.jpg?v=1786496702"},{"product_id":"1867-buffalo-soldiers-attack-indians-formosa-marines-boston-garden-sep-7","title":"1867 Buffalo Soldiers Attack Indians, Formosa Marines, Boston Garden — Sep 7","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 7, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — Black Union troops attacking Indians near Wilson Creek, Cheyenne warriors attacking a Union Pacific Railroad working party, U.S. Marines and sailors fighting the Paiwan people of Formosa in a failed punitive expedition, a double-page centerfold of Boston's Public Garden and Commonwealth Avenue, a pawn shop street scene, and a Key West cable landing. Strong content for collectors of Buffalo Soldier history, Indian Wars history, U.S. Marine Corps history, and Victorian Boston.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✊ BUFFALO SOLDIERS \u0026amp; THE PLAINS WARS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎖️ ILLUSTRATION — \"COLORED TROOPS ATTACKING INDIANS NEAR WILSON CREEK STATION\"\nA significant illustration of Black Union soldiers — the \"Buffalo Soldiers\" — attacking Indians near Wilson Creek Station on the Kansas frontier. The Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry regiments, organized in 1866 as the first permanent peacetime Black regiments in the U.S. Army, were deployed on the southern Plains in 1867 to protect settlers, railroad workers, and mail routes. Published just one year after their organization, this is an extremely early primary document of Buffalo Soldier service in the Indian Wars — among the first illustrations of Black soldiers in combat in the post-Civil War American West. An exceptional piece of Black military history and Western Americana.\n\n💥 ILLUSTRATION — \"CHEYENNE INDIANS ATTACKING A WORKING PARTY ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD\"\nA companion illustration of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers attacking Union Pacific Railroad workers on the Kansas plains — a vivid primary document of the Cheyenne resistance to railroad construction that defined the summer of 1867. A significant piece of railroad history and Indian Wars history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🪖 U.S. MARINES IN FORMOSA\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚓ ILLUSTRATION — \"ATTACK OF UNITED STATES MARINES AND SAILORS ON THE PIRATES ON THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA\"\nA historically significant illustration of the Formosa Expedition of June 13, 1867 — one of the most remarkable and least-known U.S. military operations of the 19th century. The American merchant bark Rover had wrecked off the southern tip of Formosa (Taiwan) in March 1867, and its crew was killed by Paiwan indigenous warriors. In retaliation, Rear Admiral Henry Bell dispatched 181 Marines and sailors from USS Hartford — Farragut's own flagship from the Battle of Mobile Bay — and the sloop USS Wyoming. The landing force pushed into the jungle, but the Paiwan fought a masterful guerrilla defense from concealed positions on the ridge lines. Lieutenant Commander Alexander MacKenzie was killed; the Americans retreated in defeat. Harper's Weekly called the Paiwan \"pirates\" — the Victorian framing — but the expedition was an acknowledged American failure. The Naval History and Heritage Command and the Formosafiles podcast both cite this exact Harper's Weekly illustration from this issue. A significant and rare piece of U.S. Marine Corps history and American Pacific history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌺 INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌳 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"PUBLIC GARDEN AND COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON\"\nA double-page centerfold of Boston's Public Garden and Commonwealth Avenue — the magnificent Victorian pleasure garden and the grand tree-lined boulevard of the Back Bay, two of the great achievements of 19th-century American urban planning. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Victorian Boston history.\n\n🏚️ FRONT PAGE — \"WAITING FOR THE PAWN SHOP TO OPEN — A NEW YORK STREET SCENE\"\nA front-page illustration of New Yorkers waiting for a pawn shop to open — a vivid and sympathetic piece of Gilded Age New York poverty and street life, capturing the daily reality of the city's working poor.\n\n📡 HALF PAGE — \"CABLE LANDING AT SOUTH BEACH, KEY WEST\"\nA half-page illustration of a telegraph cable being landed at South Beach, Key West — a significant piece of American telecommunications history, capturing the extension of the submarine telegraph network that was transforming global communications.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· September 7, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 173126\nPages ·············· Complete Issue · No supplement\nFormat ············· Illustrated folio newspaper\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 159-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nBuffalo Soldiers attacking Indians, colored troops Indian Wars, Black soldiers Kansas 1867, Buffalo Soldiers 9th 10th Cavalry, Wilson Creek Station Kansas, Black military history antique, Buffalo Soldier primary document, African American soldiers Indian Wars, Cheyenne attack Union Pacific, Union Pacific railroad attack, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers railroad, Indian Wars railroad Kansas, Cheyenne 1867 plains, Formosa Expedition 1867, Marines Formosa pirates, USS Hartford Formosa, Paiwan aboriginal Taiwan, Rover incident Formosa, US Marine Corps history, MacKenzie killed Formosa, Rear Admiral Bell Formosa, American Formosa expedition, Boston Public Garden, Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Victorian Boston centerfold, Back Bay Boston antique, Boston urban planning Victorian, pawn shop New York, Key West cable landing, Key West telegraph cable, submarine telegraph Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Buffalo Soldier collector, Indian Wars collector, Marine Corps history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Reconstruction era ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264020541660,"sku":null,"price":48.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/36ea35e9-il_fullxfull.8212583392_2dqe.jpg?v=1786496702"},{"product_id":"1872-nast-conspiracy-harpers-weekly-oct-12-reconstruction-violence","title":"1872 Nast Conspiracy Harper's Weekly Oct 12 Reconstruction Violence","description":"This October 12, 1872, issue of Harper's Weekly is a significant document of the tense Reconstruction era, featuring intense political satire by Thomas Nast opposing the Democratic ticket, alongside a stark, somber documentation of racial violence in the North.\n​Title: 1872 Nast Conspiracy Harper's Weekly Oct 12 Reconstruction Violence\n​📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\n​📜 Nast’s Election Cartoons: Thomas Nast dominates this issue, utilizing his art to actively campaign against Horace Greeley and the Democratic Party. The front page features the powerful cartoon \"More Secession Conspiracy,\" framing the opposition as a threat to national unity following the Civil War. Inside, the full-page cartoon \"Tied to His Mother's Apron Strings\" scathingly depicts Greeley dependent on the Southern Democratic Party.\n​📜 The Pattenburg Massacre: Documenting a grim reality of the period, the issue includes a somber series of illustrations titled \"The Patenburg Massacre.\" These prints, from sketches by Theodore R. Davis, depict violent attacks on African American workers building a railroad tunnel in Pattenburg, New Jersey, showcasing that racial violence was not limited to the South.\n​🌟 FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS 🌟\n​🎨 Thomas Nast’s Political Artwork:\n​Front-Page: \"More Secession Conspiracy\" — A dramatic caricature warning against the return of secessionist influences.\n​Full-Page Inside: \"Tied to His Mother's Apron Strings\" — A biting satire of Greeley's political position.\n​2\/3 Page Inside: \"The Jesuit Crusade Against Germany—The Meeting of the Emperors\" — Nast's take on European international relations.\n​🐟 \"Mackerel Fishing—Signal men Sighting a 'School'\" (Full-Page):\n​A detailed maritime illustration by J.O. Davidson depicting the daily life of New England fishermen.\n​A premier item for Maritime History and American Industry collectors.\n​🔥 \"The Patenburg Massacre\" (Three 1\/3 Page Illustrations):\n​\"The Sunday Night Attack—Burning Negro Cabins\"\n​\"Murder of a Negro at Mrs. Carter's House\"\n​\"The Murder of Powell\"\n​A vital, haunting primary source for African American History and Reconstruction studies.\n​🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\n​Completeness: This is the complete 16-page issue, including the original front page and all interior illustrations.\n​Authenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from October 12, 1872, not a modern reproduction.\n​Condition Study: I take pictures of the entire sheet so you can study the condition. Look for the fine details in the maritime fishing print and the intense linework in Nast's political caricatures.\n​🥂 WHY IT IS A MUST-HAVE 🥂\n​Thomas Nast Collectors: This issue features two of Nast's most defining cartoons regarding the 1872 election.\n​Reconstruction Historians: \"The Patenburg Massacre\" illustrations are critical primary sources documenting racial violence in the Northern states during the 1870s.\n​Maritime \u0026amp; Fishing Buffs: The \"Mackerel Fishing\" print is a rare and detailed look at 19th-century commercial fishing practices.\n​Custom Framing: I offer professional framing for any item in my shop. The political centerfold or the maritime scene would make a museum-quality historical focal point!\n​📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n​Safe Storage: Housed in an acid-free archival folder with a Mylar overlay to protect the 154-year-old newsprint.\n​Flat Shipping: Shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure the issue arrives safely.\n​Tracked: All orders include tracking for your peace of mind.\n​🏷️ TAGS (SEO) 🏷️\n​1872 Harpers Weekly, Thomas Nast More Secession Conspiracy, Patenburg Massacre 1872, Mackerel Fishing Print, 1872 Presidential Election Cartoons, Reconstruction Era History, Northern Racial Violence 19th Century, October 12 1872.\n​","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264021819612,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/a034338c-il_fullxfull.7753548688_fjn0.jpg?v=1786496722"},{"product_id":"1872-nast-democrats-republicans-harpers-weekly-sept-07-reconstruction","title":"1872 Nast Democrats Republicans Harper's Weekly Sept 07 Reconstruction","description":"This September 7, 1872, issue of Harper's Weekly is a powerhouse of political satire, featuring some of Thomas Nast’s most enduring allegories of the Gilded Age, alongside compelling social commentary on Reconstruction and summer leisure.\n​Title: 1872 Nast Democrats Republicans Harper's Weekly Sept 07 Reconstruction\n​📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\n​📜 Nast’s Musical Allegory: The front page features the famous Thomas Nast cartoon, \"The Same Tunes by Another Fiddle Will Sound as Sweet.\" This brilliant print highlights the alliance between the Democratic Party and the Liberal Republican movement (led by Horace Greeley) as a cynical political calculation, suggesting the \"music\" (politics) remains the same despite the change in \"fiddlers.\"\n​📜 Reconstruction and Terror: Inside, Nast delivers a stark and haunting full-page illustration titled \"The Whited Sepulchre,\" focusing on the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan and the failed promise of political reform in the South. The title references the biblical phrase for hypocrisy, condemning the moral failure of the violence.\n​🌟 FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS 🌟\n​🎨 Thomas Nast’s Political Artwork:\n​Front-Page: \"The Same Tunes by Another Fiddle\" — A masterpiece of political allegory.\n​Full-Page Inside: \"The Whited Sepulchre\" — A powerful anti-KKK visual statement.\n​2\/3 Page Inside: \"Mr. Carl Schurz and His Victims\" — A biting caricature of the German-American politician and leader of the Liberal Republicans.\n​🦟 \"Mosquitoes in the Country\" (Full-Page): A humorous and highly detailed genre illustration capturing the annoyance of summer leisure in the rural areas.\n​🌿 \"Otter Hunting—The Last Struggle\" (2\/3 Page): A dramatic scene of 19th-century sports and wildlife.\n​🎭 Social Scenes \u0026amp; Portraiture:\n​Genre Scenes: \"August—What I Know About Flirting\" and \"November—A Thing of the Past\" (Two 1\/2 page illustrations) capturing societal themes.\n​Portrait: \"The Hon. T. T. Caldwell, Governor Elect of North Carolina\" (1\/3 page).\n​🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\n​Completeness: This is the complete 16-page issue, including the original front page, the centerfold, and the attached supplement.\n​Authenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from September 7, 1872, not a modern reproduction.\n​Condition Study: I take pictures of the entire sheet so you can study the condition. Look for the fine details in the \"Otter Hunting\" scene and the bold linework in Nast's caricatures.\n​🥂 WHY IT IS A MUST-HAVE 🥂\n​Nast Collectors: This issue features two of Nast's most defining cartoons regarding the 1872 election and Reconstruction violence.\n​Reconstruction Historians: \"The Whited Sepulchre\" is an essential primary source for documenting the visual narrative of anti-KKK propaganda.\n​Sports \u0026amp; Wildlife Buffs: The \"Otter Hunting\" print is a rare and detailed look at 19th-century field sports.\n​Custom Framing: I offer professional framing for any item in my shop. The political centerfold or the mosquito cartoon would make a museum-quality historical focal point!\n​📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n​Safe Storage: Housed in an acid-free archival folder with a Mylar overlay to protect the 154-year-old newsprint.\n​Flat Shipping: Shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure the issue arrives safely.\n​Tracked: All orders include tracking for your peace of mind.\n​🏷️ TAGS (SEO) 🏷️\n​1872 Harpers Weekly, Thomas Nast Same Tunes Fiddle, Nast Whited Sepulchre KKK, 1872 Presidential Election Cartoons, Carl Schurz Caricature, Reconstruction South History, 19th Century Genre Art, September 7 1872.\n​","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264021950684,"sku":null,"price":44.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/2c00384d-il_fullxfull.7801443043_sc9k.jpg?v=1786496718"},{"product_id":"1872-negro-camp-meeting-south-harpers-weekly-aug-10-thomas-nast","title":"1872 Negro Camp Meeting South Harper's Weekly Aug 10 Thomas Nast","description":"This August 10, 1872, issue of Harper's Weekly provides a complex snapshot of American life during Reconstruction, featuring powerful imagery of African American religious life alongside biting political satire during the 1872 presidential election.\n\n\nTitle: 1872 Negro Camp Meeting South Harper's Weekly Aug 10 Thomas Nast\n\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\n📜 A View of Freedom: Inside this issue is a significant full-page illustration titled \"A Negro Camp-Meeting in the South.\" This print offers a detailed look at a vibrant gathering of African Americans in the post-Civil War South, capturing the emotional and social importance of religious camp meetings to communities newly freed from slavery. It is a vital ethnographic record of Reconstruction-era social life.\n📜 Nast’s Election Campaign: Thomas Nast dominates the political coverage, utilizing his artistic influence to support the Republican ticket of Ulysses S. Grant. The front page features the cartoon \"Any Thing To Get In,\" mocking the desperate campaign tactics of the opposition, while a full-page interior cartoon, \"The Cat's Paw—Any Thing to Get Chestnuts,\" continues his relentless critique of the political maneuvering surrounding the 1872 election.\n🌟 FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS 🌟\n🏿 \"A Negro Camp-Meeting in the South\" (Full-Page Illustration):\nA powerful and detailed scene documenting African American religious and social life in the Reconstruction South.\nA must-have for African American History, Reconstruction-era Studies, and Sociological collectors.\n🎨 Thomas Nast’s Political Artwork:\nFront-Page: \"Any Thing To Get In\" — A scathing critique of political opponents.\nFull-Page Inside: \"The Cat's Paw\" — A masterclass in political allegory and caricature.\n🏒 \"University Boat Race at Springfield, Mass.\" (Half-Page): A scene capturing the growing popularity of collegiate sports in the 19th century.\n🌐 International \u0026amp; Social News:\nA portrait of \"The Right Honorable the Earl of Dufferin,\" the new Governor-General of Canada.\nA half-page print of \"Blue Fishing\" and \"the Yacht Race,\" showcasing leisure activities of the era.\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: This is the complete 16-page issue, including the original front page and all interior illustrations.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from August 10, 1872, not a modern reproduction.\nCondition Study: I take pictures of the entire sheet so you can study the condition. Look for the fine details in the camp meeting print and the sharp linework in Nast's political cartoons.\n🥂 WHY IT IS A MUST-HAVE 🥂\nReconstruction Historians: The camp-meeting print is a foundational document for understanding African American social history in the 1870s.\nNast Collectors: This issue features two significant Nast prints from the peak of his influence during the 1872 election cycle.\nSports Enthusiasts: The collegiate rowing scene is a rare early depiction of intercollegiate athletics.\nCustom Framing: I offer professional framing for any item in my shop. The camp-meeting scene or the \"Cat's Paw\" cartoon would make a museum-quality historical focal point!\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\nSafe Storage: Housed in an acid-free archival folder with a Mylar overlay to protect the 154-year-old newsprint.\nFlat Shipping: Shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure the issue arrives safely.\nTracked: All orders include tracking for your peace of mind.\n🏷️ TAGS (SEO) 🏷️\n1872 Harpers Weekly, Negro Camp Meeting South, Thomas Nast Political Cartoons, Reconstruction Era African Americans, University Boat Race Springfield, Gilded Age Fishing Yachting, August 10 1872.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264022081756,"sku":null,"price":40.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/b542ef2d-il_fullxfull.7801409977_town.jpg?v=1786496724"},{"product_id":"1872-horace-greeley-harpers-weekly-may-18-negro-life-in-the-south-nast","title":"1872 Horace Greeley Harper's Weekly May 18 Negro Life in the South Nast","description":"Title: 1872 Horace Greeley Harper's Weekly May 18 Negro Life in the South Nast\n​📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\n​📜 The Transformation of the South: This May 18, 1872, issue contains a visually significant full-page illustration titled \"Negro Life in the South.\" Published during the height of Reconstruction, this print offers a rare, nuanced look at the domestic and social lives of African Americans in the post-war South. It serves as a vital primary source for understanding the cultural transition of the era, moving beyond political caricatures to document everyday resilience and community.\n​📜 The Rise of the Liberal Republican: The political world was rocked in early May 1872 when the Cincinnati Convention nominated Horace Greeley for President. This issue features a prominent half-page portrait of the \"Liberal Republican\" candidate. Thomas Nast, Greeley’s fiercest critic, responds in this issue with two scathing full-page cartoons, including the front cover \"What are You Going to Do About It?\" and the interior \"Great Expectations,\" setting the stage for one of the most vicious campaigns in American history.\n​🌟 FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS 🌟\n​🗳️ \"The Hon. Horace Greeley\" (1\/2 Page Portrait): A formal portrait of the famous editor and newly minted presidential candidate. A cornerstone for 1872 Election and Greeley collectors.\n​🖼️ \"Negro Life in the South\" (Full-Page Illustration): A large-scale, detailed print capturing the social and domestic atmosphere of Black communities during Reconstruction. Essential for African American History and Southern Culture scholars.\n​🎨 Thomas Nast’s \"Great Expectations\" (Full-Page): A masterful satirical work mocking Greeley’s political ambitions. This is paired with the iconic front-page cover, \"What are You Going to Do About It?\"—a direct challenge to the political status quo.\n​🏔️ \"Geneva \u0026amp; The Tribunal\" (Three 1\/3 Page Illustrations):\n​\"Geneva, Mont Blanc in the Distance\" — A scenic landscape view.\n​\"Hall of Congress, Hotel De Ville\" — Where the historic Geneva Tribunal was held to settle the Alabama Claims.\n​\"Hotel Beau-Rivage\" — The headquarters for the American Arbitrators.\n​Significant for International Law and Diplomatic History buffs.\n​📜 \"The Bethorthal of Martin Luther\" (1\/2 Page): A historical genre print depicting the engagement of Martin Luther and Katharina Von Bora, reflecting the Victorian era's interest in Reformation history.\n​⛪ \"A Roman Catholic Cardinal and His Footman\" (2\/3 Page): A detailed sketch of Roman life on the Pincian Hill, capturing the grandeur of the Church in the 19th century.\n​🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\n​Complete Issue: This is the full, original 16-page issue from May 18, 1872.\n​Originality: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from 1872—not a modern reproduction.\n​Condition Study: I take pictures of every single page so you can study them carefully. Look for the intricate textures in the \"Negro Life\" print and the architectural detail in the Geneva Hotel de Ville scene.\n​🥂 WHY IT IS A MUST-HAVE 🥂\n​Black History Collectors: Full-page depictions of \"Negro Life\" from the 1870s are increasingly rare and highly valued for their ethnographic detail.\n​Political Junkies: This issue marks the official \"starting gun\" of the Greeley campaign in the pages of Harper's Weekly.\n​Nast Enthusiasts: These two full-page cartoons represent Nast at his most aggressive and creatively potent.\n​Custom Framing: I offer professional framing for any item in my shop. The Geneva landscape or the Greeley portrait would make a museum-quality historical focal point!\n​📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n​Safe Storage: Housed in an acid-free archival folder with a Mylar overlay to protect the 154-year-old newsprint.\n​Flat Shipping: Shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure the issue arrives safely.\n​Tracked: All orders include tracking for your peace of mind.\n​🏷️ TAGS (SEO) 🏷️\n​1872 Harpers Weekly, Horace Greeley for President, Negro Life in the South Reconstruction, Thomas Nast Political Cartoon, Geneva Tribunal Alabama Claims, Martin Luther Katharina Von Bora, Roman Catholic Cardinal, Gilded Age Politics, May 18 1872.\n​","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264022409436,"sku":null,"price":40.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/1ded4d75-il_fullxfull.7801228061_2gc9.jpg?v=1786496726"}],"url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/collections\/black-history-emancipation-reconstruction.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}