1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19

1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19

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1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
  • 1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19
1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19

1874 Chicago Fire Dept · Nast on Teachers' Salaries · Grand Canyon & Yellowstone Supplement — Dec 19

$43.21
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 19, 1874 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A richly illustrated Gilded Age issue packed with social commentary, urban history, Victorian genre scenes, and a spectacular supplement devoted to the American West. Thomas Nast contributes both a front page and a back page political cartoon. A strong issue for collectors of American history, education history, Chicago history, and Western landscape art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST FRONT PAGE — "SHALL TEACHERS' SALARIES BE LOWERED?" The full front page is a Thomas Nast political cartoon weighing in on one of the great education debates of the Gilded Age — whether to cut public school teachers' pay. Nast, the era's most powerful editorial cartoonist, lent his full front-page platform to the cause of public education. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚒 FULL PAGE — "THE CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT" A handsome full-page illustration showing five firemen and four scenes of the Chicago Fire Department in action — just three years after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that destroyed much of the city. A significant piece of Chicago history documenting the rebuilding and strengthening of the city's fire response in the aftermath of that catastrophe. 🏫 TWO FULL PAGES — "CHILDREN WHO GO TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS" & "CHILDREN WHO DO NOT GO TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS" A remarkable and dramatically contrasting pair of full-page illustrations making a pointed visual argument for public education. One page shows the bright, orderly world of children who attend public school; the other shows the stark consequences for those who do not. A powerful piece of American social history and education reform advocacy. ♟️ THREE-QUARTER PAGE — "THE CHESS-PLAYERS" A handsome genre scene depicting Victorian chess players — elegant, contemplative, and eminently frameable. 🌊 FULL PAGE — "SEAWEED GATHERERS" A striking full-page coastal scene showing figures gathering seaweed on a rocky shore, boats visible in the background. A beautifully composed Victorian maritime and rural labor scene. ✏️ THOMAS NAST BACK PAGE — Political Cartoon A second Nast cartoon appearing on the back page — a rare treat to have Nast on both the front and back of a single issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ THE SUPPLEMENT — GRAND CANYON & YELLOWSTONE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The supplement is a spectacular six-panel page devoted entirely to the American West — specifically the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone — at a time when these landscapes were barely known to Eastern audiences. The panels include: 🏜️ "THE GRAND CANYON FROM THE SEA" 🪨 "INSIDE IN THE GRAND CANYON" 🌋 "ALTO FROM GILDED HILLS ROCK" 🌊 "INTERIOR OF THE GRAND CANYON" 🦅 "THE HARPY OF VULCANO" 🌋 "YELLOWSTONE — BETTY VOLCANO" The Grand Canyon was only formally surveyed by John Wesley Powell in 1869, and Yellowstone became the world's first national park in 1872 — just two years before this issue. These engravings represent some of the earliest widely-circulated visual depictions of these now-iconic American landscapes, published at the very moment of their national discovery. An extraordinary piece of American Western history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏇 ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENT CONTENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐴 "THE ROMAN TATTERSHALLS (HORSE-MARKET)" A multi-panel engraving of a Roman horse market — a vivid Victorian travel illustration capturing the sights and bustle of a traditional European livestock market. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· December 19, 1874 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 173888 Pages ·············· Complete · 16 pages + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 151-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thomas Nast political cartoon, Nast teachers salaries, public school education 1874, Gilded Age education reform, Chicago Fire Department 1874, Chicago history print, Chicago rebuild after fire, Grand Canyon antique engraving, Grand Canyon 1874 print, Yellowstone 1874 engraving, early Yellowstone print, John Wesley Powell Grand Canyon, Yellowstone national park history, American West Victorian engraving, Grand Canyon original illustration, seaweed gatherers coastal print, Victorian coastal scene, chess players Victorian print, Victorian genre scene, public school reform print, children education Victorian, Roman horse market engraving, Tattershalls Rome Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1874, antique newspaper 1874, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, Thomas Nast original, Nast front page cartoon, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, American West history print, Western landscape antique, history lover gift, Chicago history collector, Grand Canyon wall art antique, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Nast education cartoon, Victorian social reform print

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