1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13

1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13

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1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
  • 1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13
1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13

1877 Making Cartridges, Delaware Water Gap, Cloister Life — Oct 13

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 13, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A varied and visually strong issue — a cartridge factory front page, the Delaware Water Gap, the Great St. Louis Fair, a Colorado sheep raid, and a supplement with a magnificent cloister life double-page from a painting, Manitoba winter life scenes, and Zululand documentary illustration. Strong content for collectors of American industrial history, landscape art, and Victorian religious illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏭 THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💥 FULL FRONT PAGE — "MAKING CARTRIDGES" A full front-page illustration of a cartridge factory — workers filling the factory floor in the manufacture of ammunition, one of the era's defining industrial subjects. Published in the aftermath of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and in the midst of the Indian Wars, the cartridge factory was a vivid symbol of Gilded Age industrial production and its relationship to military demand. A significant piece of American industrial history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 FULL PAGE — "THE DELAWARE WATER GAP" A full-page illustration of the Delaware Water Gap — the celebrated gorge where the Delaware River cuts through the Kittatinny Ridge on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border, one of the great scenic destinations of the Gilded Age. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Eastern American landscape illustration. 🎪 HALF PAGE — "THE GREAT FAIR AT ST. LOUIS" A half-page illustration of the Great Fair at St. Louis — one of the premier agricultural and industrial exhibitions of the American Midwest. A vivid piece of Gilded Age St. Louis and Missouri history. 🐑 HALF PAGE — "SHEEP RAID IN COLORADO" A half-page illustration of a sheep raid in Colorado — a vivid piece of frontier Western conflict and the range wars that were already brewing between sheepherders and cattle ranchers in the Rocky Mountain West. A significant piece of Colorado frontier history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕌 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛪ DOUBLE-PAGE — "CLOISTER LIFE — OUTSIDE THE REFECTORY DOOR" & "CLOISTER LIFE — INSTRUCTION" (from a painting by W. W. Fenn) The supplement showpiece — a magnificent double-page illustration from a painting by W. W. Fenn, presenting two richly detailed scenes of monastic life: the upper scene shows robed monks gathered outside the refectory door, one instructing the others from a book in an atmosphere of cloistered calm; the lower scene depicts an elaborate ornate interior with monks gathered around a painted altarpiece or shrine with gilded decorative borders, a bishop or abbot figure gesturing in instruction. Beautifully rendered with the detail and atmosphere of the finest Victorian religious genre painting. A very displayable and frameable piece of Victorian ecclesiastical and monastic art. 🌨️ FULL PAGE — "LIFE IN MANITOBA" — MULTIPLE SCENES A full-page supplement of Manitoba winter life vignettes — snowshoeing, dog sled teams being harnessed, figures wrestling or playing in the snow, winter camp scenes, outdoor frontier life in the Canadian prairie winter. A vivid piece of Canadian frontier and Indigenous-adjacent winter culture, with a labeled "Indian Camp" vignette among the scenes. 🌍 MULTI-PANEL — "SCENES IN ZULULAND" A multi-panel supplement illustration of scenes in Zululand — warriors with shields, cattle, a mounted rider, huts in a landscape. Published two years before the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, this is an early and rare piece of Zulu documentary illustration in the American press. A significant piece of South African and Zulu history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· October 13, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174182 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ making cartridges factory Victorian, ammunition factory Victorian, cartridge manufacturing Gilded Age, American industrial history antique, munitions factory print, Delaware Water Gap Victorian, Delaware River landscape, Water Gap New Jersey Pennsylvania, American landscape illustration, Gilded Age scenic print, Great Fair St Louis 1877, St Louis agricultural fair, Missouri fair Victorian, sheep raid Colorado frontier, Colorado range war sheep, frontier Colorado ranching, cloister life monks Victorian, W W Fenn cloister painting, monastic life Victorian illustration, monks refectory door, Victorian religious art, cloister instruction monks, Victorian ecclesiastical illustration, Life in Manitoba winter, Manitoba snowshoe dogsled, Canadian frontier winter, Manitoba Indian camp, dog sled team Victorian, Zululand scenes illustration, Zulu warriors shields, South Africa Zululand Victorian, pre-Anglo-Zulu War, Zulu history antique, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Colorado frontier collector, Victorian religious art collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera

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