{"product_id":"1881-nast-liberty-garfield-justice-tenement-life-nyc-atlanta-cotton-expo-oct-15","title":"1881 Nast Liberty Garfield Justice, Tenement Life NYC, Atlanta Cotton Expo — Oct 15","description":"1881 Nast Liberty Garfield Justice, Tenement Life NYC, Atlanta Cotton Expo — Oct 15\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis October 15, 1881 issue of Harper's Weekly combines Thomas Nast's solemn post-Garfield allegorical commentary, a powerful documentary of New York tenement life, the rising New South Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, and the Revolutionary War battlefield at Yorktown. For collectors of Thomas Nast, New York City social history, tenement history, Atlanta history, and Gilded Age Americana, this is a richly varied and historically significant issue.\n\n🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: LIBERTY, JUSTICE \u0026amp; GARFIELD\nThe full front page delivers a Thomas Nast political cartoon featuring the allegorical figures of Miss Liberty and Justice alongside the memory of President Garfield — one of Nast's most somber and reflective post-assassination commentaries, still processing the national grief and its political implications in the weeks following Garfield's death. A fully displayable Nast original of great historical significance for collectors of American political cartooning, Garfield assassination history, and Victorian American allegorical art.\n\n🏚️ \"TENEMENT HOUSE LIFE IN NEW YORK — MAYOR GRACE'S TOUR OF INSPECTION\"\nA somber and historically significant full-page illustration documenting Mayor William R. Grace's personal tour of inspection through New York City's most overcrowded and degraded tenement districts — one of the most important social documentary illustrations in the 1881 Harper's Weekly run. Mayor Grace — New York's first Irish-Catholic mayor, elected in 1880 — had made tenement reform a priority of his administration, and his firsthand inspection of the conditions facing the city's immigrant poor was a landmark moment in the history of New York housing reform. This engraving documents the cramped interiors, the dark hallways, the overcrowded rooms, and the human cost of tenement life with the vivid directness of eyewitness journalism — predating Jacob Riis's \"How the Other Half Lives\" by nearly a decade and standing as one of the earliest and most powerful illustrated documents of the tenement reform movement. A primary source document of exceptional historical importance for collectors of New York City history, immigration history, housing reform history, and Victorian American social documentary.\n\n🏭 \"ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL COTTON EXPOSITION\"\nA full-page illustration of the Atlanta International Cotton Exposition — one of the most significant events in the history of the post-Civil War South, heralding the rise of the New South industrial economy under Henry W. Grady's vision of a modernized, industrialized Southern civilization. The Atlanta Cotton Exposition of 1881 was the first major world's fair held in the American South and drew international attention as a demonstration of Southern economic recovery and ambition. A primary source document of Atlanta history, New South history, and Reconstruction-era Southern economic development of great interest to collectors of Southern history and Gilded Age industrial history.\n\n⚔️ \"PLAN OF YORKTOWN SHOWING THE HISTORICAL SITES OF 1781\"\nA full-page illustrated plan of the Yorktown battlefield — documenting the historical sites of the 1781 siege that ended the American Revolutionary War, published in the centennial year of that decisive victory. A significant piece of American Revolutionary War history and military cartography of great interest to collectors of Revolutionary War history and American military history.\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete 16-page issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from October 15, 1881 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Presents well for its 144-year age. Natural toning to the newsprint consistent with age. The Nast front page, the tenement life full page, the Atlanta Cotton Exposition illustration, and the Yorktown plan are all clear and displayable.\nI 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.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 144-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1881 Harpers Weekly, Thomas Nast Liberty Justice Garfield, Tenement House Life New York, Mayor Grace Tenement Inspection, Atlanta Cotton Exposition 1881, Yorktown Revolutionary War 1781, New York City Housing Reform, Tenement Reform History, New South Atlanta History, Jacob Riis Predecessor Tenement, Irish Catholic Mayor New York, Antique Newspaper 1881, 19th Century Americana, Gilded Age Social Reform, New York Immigration HistorySonnet 4.6","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264012906716,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/25a09cb9-il_fullxfull.7923958011_mgbw.jpg?v=1786496618","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/1881-nast-liberty-garfield-justice-tenement-life-nyc-atlanta-cotton-expo-oct-15","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}