1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23

1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23

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1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
  • 1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23
1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23

1877 California Whaling Station, Bank of England, Nast, Manitoba — Jun 23

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 23, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A richly varied issue — a California whaling station front page, a Thomas Nast political cartoon, and a supplement with a magnificent double-page interior of the Bank of England alongside lively Manitoba frontier scenes. Strong content for collectors of Western American maritime history, British financial history, and Victorian genre illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐋 THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐋 FULL FRONT PAGE — "A WHALING STATION ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST" A full front-page illustration of whales being processed at a California coastal whaling station — published during the peak years of the shore-based whaling industry that was rapidly transforming the California coast. A significant and vivid piece of California maritime and environmental history, capturing the industrial scale of 19th-century whale processing that contributed to the devastating decline of Pacific whale populations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON A full-page Thomas Nast political cartoon — published as the French constitutional crisis of "le seize mai" was playing out in Paris, with President Mac-Mahon's dismissal of Prime Minister Jules Simon and dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies dominating European political news. Nast's back-page vignette explicitly references "Paris June 9 — Insulting Mac-Mahon," placing this issue squarely within that crisis. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏦 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ DOUBLE-PAGE — "THE OLD LADY OF THREADNEEDLE STREET" A magnificent double-page interior of the Bank of England — known since the 18th century as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," a nickname that became one of the most enduring in financial history. The illustration depicts well-dressed Victorian gentlemen conducting banking business in the Bank's grand interior, a newspaper reader seated at a table, classical arched windows and doorways giving the composition weight and atmosphere. Founded in 1694, the Bank of England was the most powerful financial institution in the world at the height of the British Empire, and this interior view is a remarkable document of Victorian financial culture at its apex. A significant and very frameable piece of British financial and architectural history. 🌾 MULTI-PANEL PAGE — "LIFE IN MANITOBA" — BY W. DE MONTAUT A lively multi-panel page of Manitoba frontier scenes by the illustrator W. de Montaut — a horseman at full gallop, a wagon team careening wildly across the prairie, a figure thrown from a horse, and figures scrambling in pursuit or flight. Manitoba had only become a Canadian province in 1870, and these vivid and humorous frontier scenes capture the energetic chaos of life on the newly settled Canadian prairie. A delightful piece of Canadian frontier and Western illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· June 23, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174150 Pages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ California whaling station Victorian, California coast whaling, shore based whaling California, Pacific whaling history, California maritime history, whale processing antique print, 19th century whaling industry, Bank of England Old Lady Threadneedle, Old Lady Threadneedle Street, Bank of England Victorian interior, British financial history print, Victorian banking history, Bank of England 1877, London financial history antique, Thomas Nast political cartoon, Nast Mac-Mahon France, French constitutional crisis 1877, Mac-Mahon France Harper's, le seize mai 1877, French Third Republic crisis, Life in Manitoba frontier, Manitoba Canada Victorian, W de Montaut illustration, Canadian prairie frontier, Manitoba 1877 settler life, Canadian frontier antique print, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, California history collector, British history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Bank of England antique print

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