1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30

1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30

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1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
  • 1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30
1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30

1877 Camel Train Nevada, Nast Britannia & Grant, Sukhum Black Sea — Jun 30

$39.63
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 30, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A lively and varied issue — a Nast front page, a camel train in the Nevada desert, a Nast double-page centerfold celebrating General Grant's world tour, an Illinois tornado, and a supplement with striking Russo-Turkish War content from the Black Sea theater: a panoramic view of Sukhum-Kaleh just after its capture by Ottoman forces and a dramatic Cossack cavalry skirmish near Batumi. Strong content for collectors of Western Americana, presidential history, and Caucasus war illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE & NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST CARTOON A Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — Gilded Age political commentary at the height of Nast's powers. 🌍 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — THOMAS NAST: "BRITANNIA LIONIZING OUR MODERN ULYSSES" A double-page Nast centerfold celebrating General Grant's world tour as the triumphal homecoming of a modern Ulysses — Britannia herself paying homage to the former president as he traveled the globe following his March 1877 departure from the White House. Grant's international reception was a source of enormous national pride, and Nast's allegorical treatment elevates the tour to the level of epic. A significant and very displayable piece of American presidential history and Victorian political art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐪 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐪 HALF PAGE — "CAMEL TRAIN IN NEVADA" A half-page illustration of a camel train moving through the Nevada desert — a vivid and unusual piece of Western Americana. The U.S. Army had famously experimented with camels as pack animals in the American Southwest and Great Basin in the 1850s and 1860s, and feral camels continued to be sighted in Nevada and the Southwest for decades afterward. A striking and collectible piece of frontier Western history. 🌪️ FULL PAGE — "DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO — DEVASTATION AT MT. CARMEL, ILLINOIS" — FIVE SCENES Five scenes documenting tornado devastation at Mt. Carmel, Illinois — a vivid piece of American weather and disaster history, capturing the destruction left by one of the Midwest's characteristic violent storms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT — RUSSO-TURKISH WAR: BLACK SEA THEATER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 FULL PAGE — "SUKHUM KALEH, RUSSIAN FORTIFIED PORT ON THE BLACK SEA, LATELY CAPTURED BY THE TURKS" A sweeping panoramic view of Sukhum-Kaleh (modern Sukhumi, capital of Abkhazia on the eastern Black Sea coast) — published immediately after its dramatic capture by an Ottoman naval squadron in May 1877. Figures in traditional Caucasian dress stand in the foreground on a hillside, the coastal town and harbor spread below, ships visible on the Black Sea horizon. Sukhum-Kaleh had been a key Russian military port on the Black Sea since 1810, and its fall to the Ottomans — aided by Abkhazian exiles who accompanied the landing force — was a significant blow to Russian prestige on the Caucasus front. The Russians retook the town in August 1877. A rare and historically significant piece of Black Sea and Caucasus war history — this little-known theater of the Russo-Turkish War is seldom depicted in American illustrated newspapers. 🐎 FULL PAGE — "COSSACKS DRIVING THE TURKISH CAVALRY — SKIRMISH NEAR BATOUM" A dramatic illustration of Cossack cavalry charging and scattering Ottoman horsemen near Batumi (modern Batumi, Georgia) on the Black Sea coast — a vivid action scene from the Caucasus front, where Russian and Ottoman forces clashed across the mountains and coastline while the more famous Danube campaign was unfolding to the west. A vigorous and very frameable piece of Victorian military illustration. 👥 ILLUSTRATION — "THE DEPARTURE OF RECRUITS — RUSSIAN PEASANTS WITH THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN GOING ABOARD" A moving illustration of Russian peasant recruits departing for the front, their families gathered to see them off at the quayside — a human document of the war's impact on ordinary Russian life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 30, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174152 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ camel train Nevada antique, Nevada desert camel, U.S. Army camel experiment, Western Americana camel, frontier Nevada print, Nast Britannia Modern Ulysses, Thomas Nast Grant world tour, Grant Britannia cartoon, President Grant Victorian, Ulysses Grant world tour, American presidential history print, Nast double page centerfold, Illinois tornado devastation, Mt Carmel Illinois tornado, American disaster history, Gilded Age tornado print, Sukhum Kaleh Black Sea, Sukhumi Abkhazia 1877, Ottoman capture Sukhum, Black Sea Russo-Turkish War, Caucasus front 1877, Sukhum fortified port, Abkhazia Victorian print, Cossacks Batoum cavalry, Cossack skirmish Batumi, Caucasus cavalry action, Batumi Georgia Victorian, Russian recruits departure, Russo-Turkish War human interest, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Western Americana collector, presidential history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Black Sea history antique

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