1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1

1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1

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1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
  • 1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1
1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1

1877 Morton Funeral, Plevna Skirmish Circassians, Nast, Doctors — Dec 1

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 1, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A historically varied issue — a three-illustration tribute to the funeral of Senator Oliver Morton, two Thomas Nast political cartoons, Circassian cavalry on the road to Plevna, battlefield medicine in action, and a supplement with Turkish artillery hauling and a Swiss school outing. Strong content for collectors of Reconstruction-era political history, Gilded Age political art, and Russo-Turkish War illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎖️ SENATOR OLIVER MORTON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚰️ THREE LARGE ILLUSTRATIONS — "THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE SENATOR MORTON" Three large illustrations documenting the funeral of Senator Oliver Perry Morton of Indiana — who died November 1, 1877, just one month before this issue, at age 54. Morton was one of the towering figures of the Civil War and Reconstruction era: wartime governor of Indiana, Lincoln's steadfast ally, a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate, and a fierce champion of African American voting rights and Union veterans. Despite being paralyzed from the waist down by a stroke in 1865, he continued serving in the Senate for another decade, becoming one of the most powerful and controversial legislators of the age. He received the second-highest number of votes at the 1876 Republican presidential convention. Mourned nationally, his funeral was witnessed by thousands. This three-illustration tribute is a significant piece of Reconstruction-era political history and a primary document of one of the period's most consequential figures. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪦 FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "EXHUMED" A Thomas Nast front-page political cartoon — "Exhumed" likely depicting the resurrection of some discredited political figure or cause from the grave of electoral defeat, rendered with Nast's characteristic dark wit. ✏️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY MUST BE PROTECTED" A full-page Nast cartoon on the fundamental rights of citizens — a pointed commentary on the Hayes administration's handling of civil rights, labor, and political violence in the post-Reconstruction moment. Two Nast illustrations in one issue, a strong double dose of Gilded Age political art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐎 TWO-THIRDS DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "A SKIRMISH ON THE ROAD TO PLEVNA — CIRCASSIAN CAVALRY IN THE FOREGROUND" A two-thirds double-page centerfold of Circassian cavalry in the foreground of a skirmish on the road to Plevna — the Ottoman irregular horsemen who were among the most feared fighters of the Russo-Turkish War. The Circassians were exiled Muslim warriors from the Caucasus who had fled to Ottoman territory after Russia's conquest of their homeland, and their fierce cavalry actions around the Plevna perimeter were a recurring feature of the war's later stages. A vivid and historically significant piece of Russo-Turkish War illustration. 🏥 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "DOCTORS AT WORK ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE" A two-thirds page illustration of battlefield medicine — surgeons and medical personnel treating the wounded under fire, one of the era's vivid and often harrowing subjects of war illustration. A significant piece of Victorian medical and military history, published as the war's casualty toll was approaching its peak. ⚖️ HALF PAGE — "THE DISSOLUTION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE" A half-page illustration of the dissolution of the High Court of Justice — a piece of Gilded Age legal or political history. Please review all photographs for full details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ TWO-THIRDS DOUBLE-PAGE — "TURKS HAULING GUNS TO THE FRONT" A two-thirds double-page supplement illustration of Ottoman soldiers hauling artillery to the front lines — a vivid piece of Russo-Turkish War logistics and military documentary illustration, capturing the brutal physical labor of moving heavy guns through the Bulgarian terrain. 🏔️ TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "A SCHOOL TREAT IN THE BERNESE OBERLAND, SWITZERLAND" A two-thirds page supplement illustration of Swiss schoolchildren on an outing in the Bernese Oberland — a warm and charming piece of Victorian Alpine life and Swiss educational culture, offering a peaceful contrast to the war content elsewhere in the issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· December 1, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174196 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Senator Morton funeral 1877, Oliver Morton Indiana senator, Oliver Morton Civil War governor, Morton Radical Republican, Indiana Civil War history, Morton funeral illustration, Reconstruction era senator, Civil War Indiana history, Morton Lincoln ally, Thomas Nast Exhumed cartoon, Nast Life Liberty Property, Nast political cartoon 1877, Gilded Age political art, Plevna skirmish Circassian, Circassian cavalry Ottoman, Circassian irregular fighters, Russo-Turkish War cavalry, Ottoman irregular cavalry, road to Plevna illustration, doctors battlefield medicine, battlefield surgery Victorian, Victorian military medicine, Civil War era medicine, Turkish artillery hauling, Turks hauling guns Ottoman, Russo-Turkish War logistics, Ottoman artillery Bulgaria, Bernese Oberland school treat, Swiss Alps schoolchildren, Victorian Swiss Alpine, Bernese Oberland Victorian, High Court dissolution, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Reconstruction history collector, Indiana history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera

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