1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9

1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9

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1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
  • 1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9
1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9

1867 Mississippi River Blacks, Lehigh University, Delta of Mississippi — Nov 9

$39.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · November 9, 1867 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A varied and historically significant issue — a full-page Mississippi River steamer scene featuring many Black figures, the Delta of the Mississippi, a district school teacher front page, the cornerstone of Baltimore's new City Hall, and Lehigh University just one year after its opening. Strong content for collectors of Black Americana, Southern river history, American educational history, and Victorian landscape illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✊ BLACK AMERICANA — MISSISSIPPI RIVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚢 FULL PAGE — "SCENE ON A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMER" — FEATURING MANY BLACK FIGURES A full-page illustration of life aboard a Mississippi River steamboat — prominently featuring many Black figures — published during the opening phase of Congressional Reconstruction, when the Mississippi River and its steamboat economy remained a central artery of Southern commerce and Black American labor. The steamboat decks, engine rooms, and docks of the Mississippi were among the most significant workplaces in Black American life in the post-emancipation South, and this illustration is a vivid primary document of that world. A significant and displayable piece of Black Americana and Southern river history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 THE DELTA OF THE MISSISSIPPI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 FULL PAGE — "DELTA OF THE MISSISSIPPI" A full-page illustration of the Mississippi River delta — the great bird's-foot delta where the Father of Waters meets the Gulf of Mexico, one of the most complex and dramatic river systems in the world. A significant and very frameable piece of American geographical and natural history illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏫 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE DISTRICT SCHOOL TEACHER" A full front-page illustration of a district school teacher — a vivid and warm piece of American educational and social history, capturing the one-room schoolhouse tradition that educated generations of Americans in the rural and frontier United States. 🏛️ HALF PAGE — "LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW CITY HALL AT BALTIMORE" A half-page illustration of the cornerstone ceremony for Baltimore's new City Hall — a significant piece of Baltimore civic and architectural history. Baltimore City Hall, built between 1867 and 1875, still stands today as one of the finest examples of American Victorian civic architecture. 🎓 QUARTER PAGE — "LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA" A quarter-page illustration of Lehigh University at South Bethlehem — published just one year after the university opened its doors in September 1866, in what was then one of the most significant educational investments in American history. Asa Packer, founder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, had donated $500,000 and 115 acres of land in 1865 to establish Lehigh — the largest educational gift in U.S. history at the time. Designed to produce engineers and industrial leaders for the rapidly expanding American economy, Lehigh was founded just as Bethlehem Steel was beginning its rise to become one of the world's great industrial empires. This illustration captures the infant university at the beginning of its history. A significant piece of American educational and industrial 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 ··············· November 9, 1867 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 173144 Pages ·············· Complete Issue · No supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 159-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mississippi River steamer Black figures, Black workers Mississippi River, African American steamboat, Reconstruction South river, Mississippi River Black antique, steamboat Black Americana, Southern river history, Mississippi River scene Victorian, Delta Mississippi River, Mississippi delta Victorian, bird's foot delta antique, Mississippi geographical illustration, district school teacher Victorian, one room schoolhouse antique, American education history, Victorian teacher illustration, Baltimore City Hall cornerstone, Baltimore City Hall 1867, Baltimore civic architecture, Maryland Victorian history, Lehigh University 1867, Lehigh University founding, Asa Packer Lehigh, South Bethlehem Pennsylvania university, Lehigh Valley Railroad Packer, Pennsylvania engineering university, Victorian university illustration, Lehigh University early history, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Black Americana collector, Mississippi history collector, university history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Reconstruction era ephemera

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