1877 Coney Island Concourse, Long Branch Beach, Montreal Riot — Aug 4
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🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · August 4, 1877
Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York
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A wonderfully rich summer issue capturing Gilded Age beach culture at its peak — Coney Island, Long Branch, and Black dock fishermen — alongside the Montreal Riot and a country peddler, plus a supplement featuring Canadian caribou hunting, French mussel-gathering, and a dramatic historical centerfold of religious refugees fleeing persecution. Strong content across American leisure history, Black Americana, and Victorian historical art.
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🏖️ SUMMER AT THE SHORE
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🎣 FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE GREAT DOCK FISHERIES"
The full front page is devoted to dock fishing, including Black fishermen at work off the dock — a significant piece of Black Americana and a vivid document of working-class fishing life on the New York waterfront in the Gilded Age.
🏖️ FULL PAGE — "ON THE BEACH AT LONG BRANCH" — NINE ILLUSTRATIONS
A full page of nine illustrated vignettes documenting beach life at Long Branch, New Jersey — one of the most fashionable Gilded Age seaside resorts, a favorite summer retreat of presidents and the wealthy elite. A wonderful and comprehensive visual document of Victorian American beach culture.
🎡 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "THE CONEY ISLAND CONCOURSE"
A handsome double-page centerfold of the Coney Island Concourse — capturing the height of summer crowds at America's most famous seaside playground, just as it was becoming the iconic mass entertainment destination it remains known as today. A significant and very displayable piece of New York leisure and amusement history.
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🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE
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🛒 FULL PAGE — "THE COUNTRY PEDDLER"
A full-page genre illustration of a traveling peddler — a beloved figure of 19th-century rural American commerce, carrying goods from town to town before the rise of department stores and mail-order catalogs.
🔥 TWO HALF PAGES — "THE MONTREAL RIOT"
Two half-page illustrations documenting civil unrest in Montreal — a significant piece of Canadian urban history, capturing a moment of public disorder in one of Canada's largest cities during the summer of 1877.
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🦌 THE SUPPLEMENT
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🦌 FULL PAGE — "CARIBOU-HUNTING IN CANADA"
A full-page illustration of caribou hunters in a dramatic snowy and marshy Canadian landscape, rifles raised toward their quarry. A vivid piece of Canadian wilderness and hunting history.
🦪 FULL PAGE — "MUSSEL-GATHERING IN FRANCE"
A full-page panoramic coastal illustration of mussel-gathering along the French tidal flats — figures spread across the wide, reflective shoreline harvesting shellfish. A beautiful and atmospheric piece of French coastal genre illustration.
⚔️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "FLEEING FROM PERSECUTION" (from a painting by C.J. Staniland)
The artistic showpiece of the supplement — a dramatic and richly detailed double-page historical scene after a painting by C.J. Staniland, depicting refugees fleeing religious persecution across a winter landscape, pursued or escorted by mounted soldiers bearing pikes and flags. Staniland was a noted British illustrator and painter of historical and dramatic subjects, and this powerful composition captures the desperation and motion of flight with great emotional force. A spectacular and very frameable piece of Victorian historical painting.
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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 ··············· August 4, 1877
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 174162
Pages ·············· Complete Issue + 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 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
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1877 Coney Island Concourse, Long Branch Beach, Montreal Riot — Aug 4
$39.63