1874 Nast Colorado Murder, Liberty Centerfold, Ireland-America — Oct 17
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🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 17, 1874
Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York
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A Thomas Nast-dominated issue — front page, double-page centerfold, and additional cartoons — combined with a gripping Colorado murder mystery, a striking Ireland-America union image, two large regatta prints, and a supplement featuring a darkly comic monkey dentist scene. One of the stronger Nast issues of the fall 1874 run.
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🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE
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🍀 FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "HIBERNIA'S SHOT"
A Thomas Nast front page depicting a symbolic union of America and Ireland — "Hibernia" (the personification of Ireland) and Columbia joined together in a powerful allegorical image. Published during the height of Irish-American political influence in Gilded Age New York, this is a significant piece of Irish-American history and Nast's engagement with the Irish community that had been a complex and evolving relationship throughout his career.
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🗽 THE CENTERFOLD
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🗽 LARGE DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — THOMAS NAST: "HALT!"
The great showpiece of the issue — a huge Thomas Nast double-page centerfold featuring the Liberty figure, commanding and dramatic across the full open breadth of the newspaper. Nast's Liberty imagery is among his most iconic work, and a double-page centerfold in this format is one of his grandest compositions. A spectacular and highly collectible piece.
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🔪 A COLORADO TRAGEDY
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🏔️ THREE PRINTS — "A COLORADO TRAGEDY"
Three illustrations documenting a sensational frontier murder case, including **"Remains of the Murdered Men"** — with full accompanying text on the intriguing crime. Colorado was wild frontier territory in 1874, just eight years before statehood, and murder cases in the remote mountain settlements captivated Eastern readers. A vivid and macabre piece of Colorado frontier history.
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⛵ REGATTA & ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS
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⛵ TWO LARGE PRINTS — REGATTA SCENES
Two large regatta illustrations — the Gilded Age's most fashionable spectator sport — rendered with the drama and atmosphere that made Harper's Weekly the era's premier visual record of American leisure culture.
🏛️ FULL PAGE — "BIDDING FOR HELP"
A richly detailed interior scene of what appears to be an auction or charity event — well-dressed Victorian figures in a crowded room, women and children prominent, capturing the social theater of Gilded Age philanthropy and civic life. Beautifully composed and very frameable.
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🦷 THE SUPPLEMENT
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🐒 HALF PAGE — "THE MONKEY AS A DENTIST"
A darkly comic and wonderfully strange illustration of a monkey performing dentistry on a terrified patient — Victorian humor at its most bizarre and entertaining. A genuinely unusual supplement image that collectors of quirky Victorian ephemera will love.
📰 "AN EXCUSE FOR BEING LATE"
A smaller comic scene rounding out the supplement's humor content.
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📋 CONDITION
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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.
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📌 DETAILS
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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· October 17, 1874
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 173870
Pages ·············· Complete · 16 pages + Supplement
Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper
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📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION
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• 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
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1874 Nast Colorado Murder, Liberty Centerfold, Ireland-America — Oct 17
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