1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17

1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17

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1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
  • 1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17
1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17

1877 Hayes & First Lady Portraits, Nast, White House, Polar Bears — Mar 17

$36.63
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 17, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A historically significant issue published just two weeks after Hayes's inauguration — full-page portraits of both the new President and First Lady, coverage of the electoral count announcement, the White House, two Thomas Nast cartoons inside and a double-page Nast supplement centerfold, and a spectacular polar bear fight illustration. A premier issue for collectors of presidential history and Gilded Age political art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "HANG YOURSELF FOR A PASTIME" A Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — a sharp post-election commentary as the dust of the Hayes-Tilden dispute settled and the new administration took shape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ THE NEW PRESIDENT & FIRST LADY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 FULL PAGE — "RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" A full-page portrait of the 19th President of the United States — published in the first weeks of his administration. Hayes had just resolved the most disputed presidential election in American history through the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction. A primary document of American presidential history. 👤 FULL PAGE — "MRS. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" A full-page portrait of First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes — one of the most popular First Ladies of the 19th century, a college-educated woman who banned alcohol from the White House and was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" by critics. Her portrait here represents a significant piece of women's history and First Ladies history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 THE ELECTORAL COUNT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗳️ HALF PAGE — "THE PRESIDENCY — MR. FERRY ANNOUNCING THE RESULT OF THE COUNT" A half-page illustration of Senator Thomas Ferry, President pro tempore of the Senate, announcing the official result of the Electoral Commission's count — the formal conclusion of the Hayes-Tilden crisis. A primary document of the resolution of the most contested presidential election in American history. 🏠 HALF PAGE — "THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON D.C." A half-page illustration of the White House — the new seat of the Hayes administration, published as the country adjusted to its new President. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇫🇷 FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "PROJECT DE LOI" A full-page Nast cartoon with a French title — a commentary on legislation or political process in his characteristic sharp style, published as the new Congress was organizing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏡 FULL PAGE — "ENGLISH COTTAGE FURNITURE — INTERIOR OF ST. GEORGE'S COTTAGE NO. 1, CENTENNIAL GROUNDS" A full-page illustration of the English cottage interior displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition — a lovely piece of Victorian decorative arts history and an enduring legacy of the great world's fair. 🔔 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "TONING THE BELL" A two-thirds page genre illustration — the craft of tuning or toning a bell, a document of Victorian artisanal tradition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐻 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐻‍❄️ FULL PAGE — "FIGHT BETWEEN POLAR BEARS IN THE COLOGNE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS" A full-page illustration of polar bears fighting at the Cologne Zoo — a dramatic and powerful piece of Victorian zoo and wildlife illustration. The Cologne Zoological Gardens was one of the great European zoos of the era, and its polar bear exhibits drew enormous crowds. 🎨 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — THOMAS NAST: "FUNCTUS OFFICIO" A Thomas Nast double-page supplement centerfold — "Functus Officio" is a Latin legal term meaning "having discharged his duty" or "no longer in office," a pointed commentary on the end of the Grant administration and the figures who had wielded power under it. A sweeping Nast composition across the full open breadth of the supplement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· March 17, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174122 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rutherford Hayes portrait 1877, President Hayes full page portrait, Lucy Hayes First Lady portrait, Lucy Webb Hayes portrait, First Lady Victorian portrait, Hayes inauguration Harper's Weekly, Electoral count announcement, Thomas Ferry electoral count, Hayes Tilden resolution, Compromise 1877 history, White House 1877 illustration, Thomas Nast Functus Officio, Nast Grant farewell cartoon, Nast double page supplement, Nast Hang Yourself Pastime, Nast Project de Loi, polar bear fight Cologne, polar bear Victorian zoo, Cologne Zoo Victorian, polar bear illustration antique, Victorian zoo illustration, English cottage furniture, Centennial furniture exhibit, St George's Cottage Centennial, 1876 Centennial decorative arts, toning the bell Victorian, bell craft Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, presidential history collector, Hayes portrait antique, First Ladies history, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, presidential portrait Victorian

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