1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9

1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9

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1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
  • 1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9
1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9

1877 Chinese Reception SF, Niagara Falls, Nast, Turkey War Scenes — Jun 9

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 9, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A visually rich issue spanning San Francisco's Chinatown, Niagara Falls tourism, Brooklyn yachting, a Thomas Nast front page, and a supplement of remarkable depth — Russian peasant life, and five pages of vivid Ottoman street characters and Russo-Turkish War military scenes. A strong issue for collectors of Chinese-American history, Victorian travel, and Ottoman military history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "THE ALMIGHTY £" A Thomas Nast cartoon leading the full front page — a pointed commentary on British financial power and the pound sterling's influence over international affairs, published during the Russo-Turkish War when British interests in the Ottoman Empire were very much at stake. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇳 CHINESE RECEPTION — SAN FRANCISCO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎊 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "A CHINESE RECEPTION IN SAN FRANCISCO" The visual showpiece of the issue — a sweeping double-page centerfold depicting a Chinese community reception in San Francisco, published at the height of the anti-Chinese movement in California and just five years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. A primary document of Chinese-American community life and culture at one of the most fraught moments in Chinese-American history. Significant for collectors of Chinese-American history and Western Americana. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛵ FULL PAGE — "YACHT RENDEZVOUS, GOWANUS BAY, BROOKLYN — PREPARING FOR THE YACHTING SEASON" A handsome full-page illustration of yachts gathering at Gowanus Bay in Brooklyn — a wonderful piece of Victorian maritime leisure and New York harbor history. 🌊 HALF PAGE — "SCENE AT NIAGARA FALLS — BUYING MEMENTOS" A half-page illustration of tourists at Niagara Falls purchasing souvenirs — a charming document of Gilded Age tourism culture at America's most celebrated natural wonder. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕌 THE SUPPLEMENT — OTTOMAN TURKEY & RUSSIA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The supplement is an extraordinary visual document of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 and Ottoman life, containing five pages of illustration: 👤 TWO FULL PAGES — "SKETCHES IN TURKEY — STREET CHARACTERS OF CONSTANTINOPLE" Two full pages presenting more than twenty individual character portraits of Constantinople street life — porters, soup sellers, rag dealers, water carriers, bread pedlars, bear performers, punters, sweet stuff sellers, tambourine players, dervishes, strawboard sellers, fruit guardians, Turkish Jews, chestnut merchants, and more. A remarkable and detailed ethnographic portrait of the Ottoman capital's street culture at the moment of the empire's greatest crisis. Vivid, specific, and historically significant. 🏕️ TWO ILLUSTRATIONS — "SKETCHES IN TURKEY — ENCAMPMENT OF CAVALRY" & "SOLDIERS PASSING THROUGH A VILLAGE" Two large military illustrations documenting the Russo-Turkish War: a Turkish cavalry encampment with tents and horses stretching to the horizon; and a lively scene of soldiers passing through a village, the inhabitants scattering before them. Direct dispatches from the front lines of one of the defining conflicts of the Victorian era. 🌾 LARGE ILLUSTRATIONS — RUSSIAN PEASANT LIFE Large illustrations of Russian peasant figures — men, women, and children in rural settings — providing a human document of the Russian side of the conflict and the lives of ordinary people caught up in the war. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 9, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174146 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 supplement pages • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Chinese reception San Francisco, Chinatown San Francisco 1877, Chinese community Victorian, Chinese American history antique, Chinese Exclusion Act history, anti-Chinese movement California, San Francisco Chinatown centerfold, Niagara Falls Victorian tourists, Niagara Falls souvenir buying, Gilded Age tourism Niagara, Gowanus Bay yachting Brooklyn, Victorian yachting Brooklyn harbor, Brooklyn maritime history, Thomas Nast Almighty Pound, Nast British pound cartoon, Russo-Turkish War Ottoman, Ottoman cavalry encampment, Turkish soldiers village, Constantinople street characters, Ottoman street life Victorian, dervish Constantinople print, Turkish water carrier Victorian, Ottoman ethnographic illustration, Russian peasant Victorian, Russo-Turkish War 1877, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Chinese American history collector, Ottoman history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Constantinople characters antique, Turkish military Victorian

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