{"product_id":"1867-queretaro-mexico-farm-life-centerfold-vera-cruz-sing-sing-aug-10","title":"1867 Queretaro Mexico, Farm Life Centerfold, Vera Cruz, Sing-Sing — Aug 10","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · August 10, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA varied and visually appealing issue — a view of Querétaro, Mexico, just weeks after Emperor Maximilian's execution there; Vera Cruz harbor; an eleven-vignette double-page centerfold of American farm life; a Methodist camp meeting at Sing Sing; and a beaver dam on the Kansas frontier. Strong content for collectors of Mexican history, American rural life, and Victorian genre illustration.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏙️ FRONT PAGE — \"VIEW OF QUERÉTARO, MEXICO\"\nA front-page view of Querétaro, Mexico — the city where Emperor Maximilian I was captured, tried, and executed by firing squad on June 19, 1867, just seven weeks before this issue went to press. Querétaro had been the site of Maximilian's last stand, where he was besieged by Juárez's republican forces and captured on May 15. This view of the city, published in the immediate aftermath of his execution, is a significant piece of Mexican and Latin American history — a primary document of the city at the center of one of the 19th century's most dramatic political events.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌾 THE CENTERFOLD\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌾 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"LIFE ON THE FARM\" — ELEVEN VIGNETTES\nThe visual showpiece of the issue — eleven vignettes of American farm life across a double-page centerfold, capturing the full cycle of rural existence in the post-Civil War era. A warm, comprehensive, and very frameable piece of American agricultural and social history. Together the eleven scenes form a complete portrait of rural American life at a defining moment of national reunion and westward expansion.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛵ HALF PAGE — \"THE CITY AND PORT OF VERA CRUZ, MEXICO\"\nA half-page view of the city and port of Vera Cruz (Veracruz) — the great Gulf of Mexico port through which French forces had landed to install Maximilian, and through which the liberal republican forces of Juárez had maintained their resistance. A significant piece of Mexican and Latin American history at a pivotal moment of national restoration.\n\n🦫 HALF PAGE — \"BEAVER DAM ON PAWNEE FORK, KANSAS\"\nA half-page illustration of a beaver dam on Pawnee Fork in Kansas — a vivid piece of the Kansas frontier landscape, published while Custer's 7th Cavalry was operating along the Smoky Hill Trail nearby. A significant piece of Kansas natural history and Western Americana.\n\n⛺ FULL PAGE — \"CAMP MEETING OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT SING SING\"\nA full-page illustration of a Methodist Episcopal camp meeting at Sing Sing, New York — the outdoor religious revival meetings that were one of the great institutions of American Protestant life in the 19th century. A vivid piece of American religious and social 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 ··············· August 10, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 173118\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 to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nQueretaro Mexico view 1867, Querétaro Maximilian execution, Maximilian Mexico Queretaro, Mexican history antique print, Second Mexican Empire history, Juarez Mexico victory, Life on the Farm centerfold, American farm life Victorian, farm life eleven vignettes, rural American life antique, agricultural history print, Victorian farm centerfold, American rural Victorian, Vera Cruz Mexico port, Veracruz harbor Mexican, Mexican port Victorian, Gulf of Mexico Victorian, French intervention Mexico, beaver dam Pawnee Fork, Pawnee Fork Kansas, Kansas frontier natural history, Kansas beaver dam, Western Americana Kansas, Pawnee Fork wildlife, Methodist camp meeting, Sing Sing New York religious, Methodist Episcopal revival, American religious history, camp meeting Victorian, Protestant revival antique, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Mexican history collector, farm life collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Reconstruction era ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264020672732,"sku":null,"price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/2e0a9bb3-il_fullxfull.8212056274_jjyw.jpg?v=1786496709","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/1867-queretaro-mexico-farm-life-centerfold-vera-cruz-sing-sing-aug-10","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}