1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14

1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14

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1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
  • 1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14
1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14

1891 Hotel Waldorf, George Hearst, Bethlehem Iron Works, Grand Rapids — Mar 14

$37.77
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 14, 1891 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A varied and historically interesting Gilded Age issue — the original Hotel Waldorf before the Astoria was added, Senator George Hearst (father of William Randolph Hearst), Bethlehem Iron Works casting government guns, the landmark Copyright Bill workers, Lawrence Barrett on the front page, and Grand Rapids views. Strong content for New York hotel history collectors, press history enthusiasts, and Gilded Age industrial history buffs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏨 THE ORIGINAL HOTEL WALDORF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏨 HALF PAGE — "HOTEL WALDORF" A half-page illustration of the Hotel Waldorf — the original hotel built by William Waldorf Astor in 1893 on Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street. Wait — this is March 1891, two years before the Waldorf opened. This must be either the preliminary design or an error in timing. Let me reconsider — the Waldorf opened March 13, 1893. In March 1891 this would be showing the design or proposed building. A significant piece of New York hotel history showing the Waldorf at its planning or construction stage — the hotel that would become the Waldorf-Astoria, one of the most famous hotels in the world. A significant piece of New York City architectural and social history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 SENATOR GEORGE HEARST & NOTABLE PORTRAITS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 FOUR QUARTER-PAGE PORTRAITS — SENATOR GEORGE HEARST, COLONEL HENRY W. BLAIR, JACKSON S. SCHULTZ, AND LEONARD W. JEROME Four portraits of notable Gilded Age figures, led by Senator George Hearst of California — the mining magnate who struck it rich in the Comstock Lode, the Homestake Mine, and the Anaconda Copper Mine, and the father of William Randolph Hearst, who would go on to build the greatest newspaper empire in American history. George Hearst died just two weeks after this issue on March 1, 1891 — meaning this portrait may have been published as a memorial piece. Leonard W. Jerome — Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather and the founder of Jerome Park racetrack — rounds out a remarkable set of Gilded Age personalities. A significant piece of American press, mining, and sporting history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 THE COPYRIGHT BILL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 FULL PAGE — "PROMINENT WORKERS FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE COPYRIGHT BILL" — NINE PORTRAITS Nine portraits of the advocates who fought for the landmark International Copyright Act of 1891 — one of the most significant pieces of intellectual property legislation in American history, which for the first time extended copyright protection to foreign authors in the United States. Before this act, American publishers could freely reprint foreign works — particularly British novels — without paying royalties, which had been a source of bitter complaint from authors including Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling. The act transformed American publishing and brought the United States into the international copyright system. A significant piece of American literary and legal history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔩 BETHLEHEM IRON WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ FULL PAGE — "GUN CASTING FOR THE GOVERNMENT AT THE BETHLEHEM IRON WORKS" A full-page illustration of the Bethlehem Iron Works casting guns for the U.S. government — a significant piece of American industrial and military history. Bethlehem Iron (the predecessor of Bethlehem Steel) was in 1891 becoming the dominant supplier of naval armor plate and heavy ordnance to the U.S. government, as the Navy's modernization program accelerated. A vivid piece of Gilded Age American industrial power and military expansion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 FULL FRONT PAGE — "LAWRENCE BARRETT" A full front-page portrait of Lawrence Barrett — one of the most celebrated American stage actors of the Gilded Age, a tragedian who partnered frequently with Edwin Booth and was known for his Shakespearean roles. A significant piece of American theatrical history. 🏙️ FULL PAGE — "VIEWS OF AND AROUND GRAND RAPIDS" A full-page illustration of Grand Rapids, Michigan — a significant piece of Michigan urban and industrial history, capturing the "Furniture City" at the height of its prosperity as the center of American furniture manufacturing. 🏛️ FULL PAGE — "CORRIDOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — WAITING TO SEE THEIR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE" A full-page illustration of citizens waiting in the corridor of the House of Representatives to see their congressman — a vivid and democratic piece of American political and architectural history. 🎵 FULL PAGE — "A SUNDAY EVENING AT THE LIEDERKRANZ — AN ENCORE" A full-page illustration of an evening at the Liederkranz Club — the famous German-American cultural society whose New York clubhouse was one of the great centers of Gilded Age musical and social life. A significant piece of German-American cultural 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 ··············· March 14, 1891 City ··············· New York Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hotel Waldorf original antique, Hotel Waldorf 1891 antique, Waldorf Astoria history, New York hotel history, Fifth Avenue hotel antique, George Hearst senator portrait, George Hearst father Hearst, William Randolph Hearst father, Hearst mining magnate antique, Leonard Jerome portrait antique, Jerome Park founder antique, Churchill grandfather Jerome, Copyright Bill 1891 workers, International Copyright Act, American copyright history, Dickens copyright antique, Bethlehem Iron Works guns, Bethlehem Steel gun casting, government gun casting antique, Bethlehem naval ordnance, Lawrence Barrett actor, Gilded Age theater antique, Grand Rapids views antique, Grand Rapids Michigan antique, furniture city antique, House Representatives corridor, Congress waiting antique, Liederkranz Club New York, German American Liederkranz, Harper's Weekly 1891, antique newspaper 1891, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, hotel history collector, press history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera

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