1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13

1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13

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1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
  • 1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13
1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13

1867 Macon Georgia Market Black Americans, Faneuil Hall, Birds — Jul 13

$39.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · July 13, 1867 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A varied and historically significant issue — a Georgia market scene featuring many Black Americans, the interior of Faneuil Hall in Boston, an Old Ladies Home in Brooklyn, a full page of Central Park birds, Rocky Mountain wildlife, and Evanston's Heck Hall. Strong content for collectors of Black Americana, Reconstruction-era Southern history, natural history illustration, and American civic architecture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✊ BLACK AMERICANA — RECONSTRUCTION SOUTH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏪 HALF PAGE — "MARKET SCENE IN MACON, GEORGIA" — FEATURING MANY BLACK FIGURES A half-page illustration of a market scene in Macon, Georgia, showing many Black Americans — published in July 1867 during the opening phase of Congressional Reconstruction, when federal troops occupied the South and formerly enslaved people were navigating their first years of freedom. Macon was one of Georgia's major commercial cities, and the presence of Black Americans prominently depicted in its market — as vendors, customers, and participants in public economic life — makes this a significant primary document of African American life in the immediate post-emancipation South. A significant and historically meaningful piece of Black Americana and Reconstruction-era Southern history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ FULL PAGE — "INTERIOR OF FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON" A full-page illustration of the interior of Faneuil Hall — the "Cradle of Liberty," Boston's most celebrated public meeting hall, where patriots had gathered since the 1760s to debate the cause of American independence. A significant and beautiful piece of Boston civic history and American architectural heritage. 👵 FULL PAGE — "A SCENE IN THE OLD LADIES HOME, BROOKLYN" A full-page illustration of life inside the Old Ladies Home in Brooklyn — a charitable institution for elderly women, capturing a warm and sympathetic domestic interior scene. A significant piece of Victorian charitable life and Brooklyn social history. 🐦 FULL PAGE — "BIRDS FROM THE CENTRAL PARK COLLECTION" A full-page illustration of birds from the Central Park natural history collection — a beautifully rendered piece of Victorian natural history illustration, capturing specimens from one of New York's great public institutions. A wonderful and very frameable piece of American natural history art. 🐑 HALF PAGE — "THE AMERICAN ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP" A half-page illustration of the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains — a vivid and significant piece of American natural history, documenting the iconic wild sheep of the western mountain ranges. 🦌 HALF PAGE — "THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULE DEER" A half-page illustration of the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains — a companion to the bighorn sheep illustration, capturing another signature animal of the American West. Together the two wildlife illustrations make a strong matched pair for natural history collectors. 🏫 HALF PAGE — "HECK HALL, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS" A half-page illustration of Heck Hall at Evanston, Illinois — a building associated with Northwestern University, which was established in Evanston in 1851. A piece of Midwestern educational and architectural history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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