1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22

1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22

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1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
  • 1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22
1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22

1898 Forbidden City Peking Front Page, Fall of Manila, Puerto Rico — Oct 22

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 22, 1898 Complete Issue · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A visually exceptional and globally ranging issue — the Forbidden City of Peking on the full front page and six interior views of the Chinese capital, a double-page centerfold of charging troops at the Fall of Manila, five scenes of Puerto Rico under American occupation, and additional Fall of Manila coverage. Strong content for collectors of Chinese history, Philippine history, and Spanish-American War ephemera — an extraordinary geographic sweep from Beijing to Manila to San Juan in one complete issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏯 THE FORBIDDEN CITY — PEKING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏯 FULL FRONT PAGE — "PEKING — THE FORBIDDEN CITY AS SEEN FROM THE IMPERIAL CITY" A spectacular full front-page illustration of the Forbidden City of Peking — the vast imperial palace complex at the heart of the Chinese capital, home to the Qing dynasty emperors and forbidden to ordinary Chinese for nearly five centuries. Published in October 1898 — just weeks after the dramatic failure of the Hundred Days' Reform, in which the young Guangxu Emperor had attempted to modernize China and was placed under house arrest by the Empress Dowager Cixi — this view of the Forbidden City is charged with political significance. China was at a crossroads: the reform movement crushed, the Boxer Uprising building, and the great powers carving up spheres of influence in the dying Qing Empire. This front-page view of the Forbidden City is a primary document of Western fascination with China at a pivotal moment in its history, published just two years before the Boxer Rebellion would bring international troops to Peking's gates. A significant and very frameable piece of Chinese imperial history. 🏙️ FULL PAGE — "PEKING" — SIX SCENES A full page of six scenes of Peking — temples, markets, streets, and the daily life of the Chinese capital at the end of the 19th century — a comprehensive visual documentary of the city that Western readers knew primarily as a forbidden mystery. A vivid and significant piece of Victorian-era Chinese history and Orientalist illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇵🇭 THE FALL OF MANILA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💥 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "THE FALL OF MANILA" — CHARGING TROOPS The visual showpiece of the issue — a dramatic double-page centerfold of American troops charging during the Fall of Manila on August 13, 1898 — the assault that ended Spanish rule in the Philippines and gave the United States its first major Asian territory. The capture of Manila was completed hours after the peace protocol was signed in Washington, leading to bitter controversy about whether the battle should have been fought at all, and igniting Filipino independence fighters under Emilio Aguinaldo toward the Philippine-American War that would break out in February 1899. A significant and very frameable piece of American military and Philippine history. 🇵🇭 FULL PAGE — "FALL OF MANILA" — ADDITIONAL VIEWS A full page of additional illustrations documenting the fall of Manila — a comprehensive visual record of one of the most consequential military events in American imperial history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO UNDER AMERICAN RULE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇵🇷 FULL PAGE — "SCENES IN PUERTO RICO" — FIVE SCENES Five scenes of Puerto Rico under the new American administration — the streets, people, and landscapes of an island adjusting to the transfer of sovereignty from Spain to the United States. A primary document of Puerto Rican life at the exact moment of its transformation, capturing both the island and its people in the first weeks of American rule. A significant piece of Puerto Rican history and American imperial 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 22, 1898 City ··············· New York Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 128-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Forbidden City Peking front page, Peking Forbidden City 1898, Imperial City Peking antique, Qing dynasty Forbidden City, Peking China 1898 illustration, Chinese imperial palace antique, Empress Dowager Cixi era, Guangxu Emperor reform 1898, China Boxer Rebellion precursor, Peking six scenes Victorian, Chinese capital Victorian antique, Fall of Manila centerfold, Manila charging troops 1898, Philippines American charge, Manila American troops, Philippines fall Spanish, Aguinaldo Philippines 1898, Manila battle illustration, Puerto Rico five scenes, Puerto Rico American rule, Puerto Rico occupation 1898, Puerto Rican life 1898, Puerto Rico streets people, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, Spanish American War newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, China history collector, Philippines history collector, Puerto Rico history collector, Spanish American War collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera

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