1898 Pueblo Indian Celebration, Navy Football Team, Electric Cabs NYC — Dec 10
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🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 10, 1898
Complete Issue · New York
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A richly varied and historically significant issue — a double-page centerfold documenting San Geronimo's Day at Taos Pueblo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America; the United States Naval Academy football team; New York's electric cab service; a great Atlantic storm; and Puerto Rico under American rule. Strong content for collectors of Native American history, college football history, New York transportation history, and Puerto Rican history.
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🪶 PUEBLO INDIAN CELEBRATION — SAN GERONIMO'S DAY
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🪶 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "A STRANGE MIXTURE OF BARBARISM AND CHRISTIANITY — THE CELEBRATION OF SAN GERONIMO'S DAY AMONG THE PUEBLO INDIANS"
A double-page centerfold documenting San Geronimo's Day (September 30) at Taos Pueblo — one of the most extraordinary celebrations in Native American life and a living testament to the complex legacy of Spanish colonization in the American Southwest. The annual feast day of St. Jerome (San Geronimo), the patron saint of Taos Pueblo, blends centuries-old Tiwa indigenous traditions with Catholic ceremony in ways that reflect the 300-year history of Pueblo resistance and accommodation. The day's celebrations include traditional foot races at dawn, an open-air trade fair drawing tribes from across the region, the appearance of the Koshare — sacred clowns in black and white body paint whose pole-climbing and satirical performances carry deep spiritual significance — and traditional dances in the great plaza of the Pueblo. Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, has been home to the Tiwa-speaking people for more than a thousand years. The headline's use of "barbarism" reflects the deeply condescending Victorian framing of indigenous ceremony — a framing that Harper's Weekly's readers would have recognized as romanticized rather than hostile, in keeping with the era's fascination with "vanishing" Native cultures. This centerfold is a primary document of Pueblo ceremonial life at the turn of the 20th century, when traditional ceremonies were under severe pressure from federal assimilation policies. A significant and very frameable piece of Native American history and Southwestern cultural history.
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🏈 NAVY FOOTBALL
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🏈 HALF PAGE — "THE FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND"
A half-page illustration of the Naval Academy football team — published during the height of the college football season at a moment when the Navy Midshipmen were one of the most competitive programs in America. The Army-Navy Game, first played in 1890, was already one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year by 1898. A significant piece of early college football history and Naval Academy history.
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🚕 NEW YORK'S ELECTRIC CABS
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🔋 FULL PAGE — "THE ELECTRIC-CAB SERVICE IN NEW YORK CITY"
A full-page illustration of New York's new electric cab service — the Electric Carriage and Wagon Company's fleet of hansom-style electric cabs that began operating in New York in 1897, making them the world's first commercially successful electric taxi service. By 1898 the fleet had grown to over 60 cabs serving Manhattan. This illustration is a primary document of one of the earliest chapters in the history of electric vehicles and urban transportation — a technology that would take another century to reach the mainstream. A significant and unusual piece of New York City transportation history and electric vehicle history.
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🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE
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🌊 TWO FULL PAGES — "THE GREAT STORM ON NOVEMBER 26 AND 27"
Two full pages documenting the great Atlantic storm of late November 1898 — one of the most destructive coastal storms of the decade, battering the Eastern Seaboard with high winds and heavy seas. A significant piece of American meteorological and maritime history.
⛵ FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE PERILS OF THE DEEP"
A dramatic full front-page illustration of maritime peril at sea — a vivid piece of Victorian maritime disaster illustration.
🇵🇷 FULL PAGE — "PUERTO RICO — OUR WEST INDIAN ACQUISITIONS AND ITS PEOPLE"
A full page of illustrations of Puerto Rico and its people — a significant primary document of the island and its inhabitants under the first weeks of American administration, capturing both the landscape and the human face of America's newest Caribbean territory.
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📋 CONDITION
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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.
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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· December 10, 1898
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages
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• 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
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1898 Pueblo Indian Celebration, Navy Football Team, Electric Cabs NYC — Dec 10
$38.88