1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15

1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15

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1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
  • 1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15
1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15

1867 Kansas Pacific Railroad Scenes, Nast "Infanticide," Japanese Acrobat Jun 15

$38.88
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 15, 1867 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A varied and visually rich issue — five Kansas Pacific Railroad landscape scenes documenting the transcontinental route as it pushed west through the Indian territory, a Thomas Nast "Infanticide" Reconstruction cartoon, a Hancock Indian operations map, Japanese acrobats at the Academy of Music, and horse racing at Jerome Park. Strong content for railroad history collectors, Western Americana enthusiasts, and Nast collectors. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚂 THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ MULTIPLE ILLUSTRATIONS — KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD SCENES Four landscape illustrations documenting the Kansas Pacific Railroad's route through the Plains and into the mountains — published as the railroad was actively under construction through the heart of the Indian Wars: **"Valley of Spring Creek, Kansas Pacific Railroad"** — a panoramic view of the Plains landscape along the route, the raw beauty of the territory the railroad was transforming. **"Cave on Mulberry Creek, Kansas Pacific Railroad"** — a dramatic natural feature along the route, the kind of landscape that made the West irresistible to Eastern readers. **"Look's Ranch, Kansas Pacific Railroad"** — a frontier ranch along the route, capturing the settler life springing up in the railroad's wake. **"Pulpit Rock on Alum Creek, Kansas Pacific Railroad"** — a dramatic rock formation that was already becoming a landmark for travelers. Published in June 1867 as the Kansas Pacific was cutting through the same territory where General Hancock was burning Cheyenne villages and Custer's 7th Cavalry was pursuing Dog Soldiers, these landscape illustrations are primary documents of the transcontinental railroad's advance through contested Native American land. A significant piece of Kansas and Western railroad history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST — "INFANTICIDE" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST: "INFANTICIDE" A Thomas Nast political cartoon titled "Infanticide" — a characteristically pointed Reconstruction-era allegory, likely depicting the killing of Black civil rights or Reconstruction legislation by its opponents. In June 1867 Nast was producing some of the most powerful political illustrations of his career, and "Infanticide" is consistent with his ongoing campaign to hold the Johnson administration accountable for the destruction of Reconstruction promises. A significant piece of Nast's Reconstruction-era work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗺️ HANCOCK'S INDIAN OPERATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗺️ MAP — "SCENE OF GEN. HANCOCK'S OPERATIONS IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY" A map documenting General Hancock's military operations across the southern Plains — a primary geographic document of the 1867 Indian Wars, showing the routes and engagements of one of the most controversial military campaigns of the era. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎪 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎪 ILLUSTRATION — "MAGUIRE & RISLEY'S JAPANESE TROUPE IN THEIR MARVELOUS FEATS AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW YORK" An illustration of the Japanese acrobatic troupe performing at the Academy of Music — one of the most popular theatrical attractions in New York in 1867, as the opening of Japan under the Meiji Restoration made Japanese performers a sensation in the West. A vivid piece of New York entertainment history and the first wave of American fascination with Japanese culture. 🏇 ILLUSTRATION — "THE HANDICAP HURDLE-RACE AT JEROME PARK" An illustration of hurdle racing at Jerome Park — the elegant Bronx racetrack opened by Leonard Jerome (Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather) in 1866, which quickly became the most fashionable racing venue in America. A significant piece of American horse racing history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· June 15, 1867 City ··············· New York Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kansas Pacific Railroad scenes, Kansas Pacific landscape antique, railroad Indian territory antique, Spring Creek Kansas railroad, Mulberry Creek railroad antique, Pulpit Rock Kansas railroad, Look's Ranch Kansas antique, transcontinental railroad antique, Kansas Pacific 1867, railroad western antique print, Nast Infanticide cartoon, Thomas Nast Infanticide, Nast Reconstruction allegory, Hancock Indian operations map, Hancock map Indian country, Indian Wars map antique, Japanese troupe Academy Music, Maguire Risley Japanese troupe, Japanese acrobats New York, Meiji Japan performers, Japanese circus antique, Jerome Park hurdle race, horse racing Jerome Park, Leonard Jerome racing antique, Gilded Age horse racing, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, railroad history collector, Nast collector, horse racing collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera

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