1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3

1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3

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1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
  • 1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3
1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3

1891 Oberammergau Passion Play, Arlington Bridge Proposed, Justice Brown — Jan 3

$37.77
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · January 3, 1891 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A richly varied New Year's issue spanning German religious theater, Washington architecture, Supreme Court history, Idaho statehood, and Gilded Age street life — the Oberammergau Passion Play in a double-page centerfold, the proposed Arlington Bridge across the Potomac, newly appointed Justice Henry Brown, Idaho's first senators, and a horse curricle ride centerfold. Strong content for religious history collectors, Washington D.C. history enthusiasts, and Supreme Court history buffs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✝️ OBERAMMERGAU — THE PASSION PLAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛪ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "OBERAMMERGAU" — MULTIPLE ILLUSTRATIONS A double-page centerfold documenting the Oberammergau Passion Play — the celebrated decennial passion play performed by the villagers of Oberammergau, Bavaria, which has been staged every ten years since 1634 in fulfillment of a vow made during the Black Death. The 1890 production — the most internationally attended of the 19th century — drew visitors from across the world to the small Bavarian village to witness the epic retelling of Christ's Passion by a cast of hundreds of villagers, in an open-air amphitheater 180 feet across. The production generated enormous international press coverage and a wave of books, photographs, and souvenirs that made "Oberammergau" a household word across the English-speaking world. 🎭 HALF PAGE — "THE DEPARTURE FROM BETHANY" A half-page illustration from the Oberammergau Passion Play — the scene of Christ's departure from Bethany before his entry into Jerusalem, rendered with the theatrical grandeur that made the play a sensation. 👤 QUARTER PAGE — "CHRISTUS (JOSEF MAIER)" A portrait of Josef Maier — who played the role of Christus (Christ) in the 1890 Oberammergau Passion Play. A significant piece of religious theater history and Victorian German cultural history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌉 THE PROPOSED ARLINGTON BRIDGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌉 ONE-THIRD PAGE — "THE PROPOSED ARLINGTON BRIDGE ACROSS THE POTOMAC AT WASHINGTON D.C." A one-third page illustration of the proposed Arlington Bridge — the grand neoclassical bridge connecting Washington D.C. to Arlington Cemetery and the Virginia shore, which had been debated for decades before finally being built between 1926 and 1932. This 1891 illustration is a primary document of the long campaign to build one of Washington's most beautiful landmarks — showing the proposed design thirty-five years before construction began. A significant piece of Washington D.C. architectural and planning history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ JUSTICE HENRY B. BROWN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚖️ QUARTER PAGE — "HENRY B. BROWN OF MICHIGAN, THE NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES" A portrait of newly appointed Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown of Michigan — who would go on to write one of the most consequential and controversial opinions in Supreme Court history: the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which established the "separate but equal" doctrine that legalized racial segregation for the next sixty years, until overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. This portrait — published at the moment of his appointment by President Harrison — is a primary document of the justice who shaped American race relations for the next half-century. A significant piece of Supreme Court and American civil rights history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ IDAHO STATEHOOD — FIRST SENATORS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗳️ THREE SMALL PORTRAITS — "THE THREE SENATORS ELECT FROM IDAHO" — GOVERNOR GEORGE L. SHOUP, WILLIAM J. McCONNELL, AND FRED T. DUBOIS Three portraits of Idaho's first senators — published just months after Idaho became the 43rd state on July 3, 1890. A significant piece of Idaho statehood history and Western American political history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐎 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "A CURRICLE RIDE" A double-page centerfold of a curricle ride — a two-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses abreast, the fashionable sporting vehicle of the Gilded Age elite. A vivid and very frameable piece of Victorian carriage and leisure history. 🥔 ONE-THIRD PAGE — "THE HOT POTATO CART" A charming one-third page illustration of a hot potato street vendor — a vivid piece of Gilded Age New York street food and working-class culture. 🏥 FULL PAGE — "THE WORK OF THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ASSOCIATION" A full-page illustration of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association — a significant charity that collected donations from church congregations across New York to support the city's hospitals, a vivid piece of Victorian philanthropic history. 👤 SMALL PORTRAIT — "WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE, A.M., THE NEW PRESIDENT OF SWARTHMORE COLLEGE" A small portrait of William Dudley Foulke — the new president of Swarthmore College, a Quaker institution in Pennsylvania and a significant piece of American educational history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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