1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26

1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26

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1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
  • 1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26
1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26

1874 Irish Emigrants Queenstown, Brigham Young's Wives, Nast — Sep 26

$43.21
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 26, 1874 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A deeply moving and historically significant issue — the double-page centerfold of Irish emigrants departing Queenstown for New York is one of the most powerful immigration images in the Harper's Weekly canon, paired with rare Mormon interior scenes, a Thomas Nast Reconstruction cartoon, and a beautiful autumn front page. A strong issue for collectors of immigration history, Mormon history, and Gilded Age political art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍂 FULL FRONT PAGE — "AUTUMN" A lovely seasonal front page — a young woman holding wheat sheaves, rendered in the warm, allegorical Victorian tradition. A beautiful and eminently frameable image that captures the era's idealization of harvest and the turning of the year. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚢 THE CENTERFOLD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇮🇪 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "EMIGRANTS LEAVING QUEENSTOWN FOR NEW YORK" The showpiece of the issue and one of the most emotionally powerful illustrations in the entire Harper's Weekly run. A densely packed, sweeping double-page crowd scene at the Queenstown (Cobh) dock — Irish men, women, and children preparing to board for America, their faces a register of hope, grief, exhaustion, and determination. Published during the height of the great Irish emigration wave, this image stands as a primary visual document of one of the defining human stories of the 19th century. Deeply significant for collectors of Irish-American history, immigration history, and Victorian social documentary art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛪ MORMON SCENES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕍 NEARLY FULL PAGE — "BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WIVES IN THE GREAT MORMON TABERNACLE" & "MORMON AT THE COMMUNION TABLE" Two illustrations with accompanying text — a rare interior view of the Salt Lake Tabernacle filled with Brigham Young's wives, paired with a Communion scene. Published at a moment of intense national scrutiny of Mormon polygamy and Utah statehood, these illustrations gave Eastern readers their most vivid glimpse inside a world few would ever see. A significant piece of Mormon history and American religious controversy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✊ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "THE COMMANDMENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA" A full-page Nast cartoon depicting a Black man in the context of Reconstruction-era South Carolina — one of Nast's powerful commentaries on civil rights, racial justice, and the broken promises of Reconstruction. Nast was one of the most vocal advocates for Black civil rights in the popular press, and these cartoons are significant primary documents of the Reconstruction era. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐄 THREE-QUARTER PAGE — "THE MORNING TOILET" A charming three-quarter page scene of the morning care of animals — a warm, rural genre illustration in the best Victorian tradition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛵ THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 FULL PAGE — "IN TOW" (from a drawing by Almira Inman) A dramatic full-page illustration of a small sailboat being towed through violently churning seas — a tiny vessel against vast turbulent waters. Engraved from a drawing by Almira Inman, a notable woman artist contributing to Harper's at a time when female illustrators were rare. A striking and atmospheric maritime scene. 🌿 FULL PAGE — "THE ARTIST OR STONE" A beautifully rendered romantic garden scene — elegantly dressed Victorian figures in an intimate outdoor setting with classical architectural elements. Warm, refined, and eminently frameable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· September 26, 1874 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 173864 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 centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Irish emigrants Queenstown, Irish emigration 1874, Queenstown New York emigrants, Irish American history print, Great Famine emigration, Irish immigration Victorian, Cobh emigrants illustration, Irish diaspora antique print, Brigham Young wives, Mormon Tabernacle interior, Mormon polygamy Victorian, Salt Lake Tabernacle 1874, Mormon history antique print, Utah Territory polygamy, Brigham Young Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast Reconstruction, Nast civil rights cartoon, Nast South Carolina Reconstruction, Black civil rights 1874, Reconstruction era print, Nast voting rights cartoon, autumn harvest Victorian print, wheat sheaves Victorian, Victorian seasonal allegory, morning toilet animals Victorian, In Tow maritime print, Almira Inman illustration, Victorian woman artist, sailboat stormy seas Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1874, antique newspaper 1874, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Irish history collector, Mormon history collector, immigration history antique, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Irish American genealogy gift, Reconstruction civil rights print

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