{"product_id":"1898-puerto-rico-peace-flag-of-truce-klondike-winter-wilhelmina-oct-1","title":"1898 Puerto Rico Peace \u0026 Flag of Truce, Klondike Winter, Wilhelmina — Oct 1","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 1, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically layered issue published on the exact day the United States and Spain met in Paris to begin drafting the Treaty of Peace — Puerto Rico's first flag of truce, General Macías receiving the American commissioners at the palace in San Juan, the healing of war's wounds, Klondike winter scenes, Queen Wilhelmina's coronation, and the dedication of Alexander II's monument in Moscow. A primary document of the moment the Spanish-American War formally began its diplomatic conclusion.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO — PEACE ARRIVES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏳️ FULL FRONT PAGE — \"PUERTO RICO — THE FIRST FLAG OF TRUCE AFTER THE NEWS OF PEACE\"\nA full front-page illustration of the first flag of truce raised in Puerto Rico following the peace protocol of August 12, 1898 — a moving and historically significant primary document of the moment four centuries of Spanish rule in Puerto Rico began its formal conclusion. This issue was published on October 1, 1898 — the same day U.S. and Spanish commissioners convened in Paris for their first meeting to draft the Treaty of Peace. Puerto Rico would be formally ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, and remains a U.S. territory to this day. A significant piece of Puerto Rican history at its most pivotal moment.\n\n🤝 FULL PAGE — \"PEACE COMES TO PUERTO RICO — GENERAL MACIAS RECEIVING THE AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS AT THE PALACE, SAN JUAN\"\nA full-page illustration of General Manuel Macías — the last Spanish Governor-General and Captain General of Puerto Rico — receiving the American commissioners at the governor's palace in San Juan. Macías had declared martial law at the outbreak of war and vowed Puerto Rico would remain Spanish, but with the peace protocol signed he met with American representatives to arrange the transfer of sovereignty. He departed Puerto Rico on October 16, 1898, as the fort of San Cristóbal honored him with a farewell salvo of 21 cannon shots. On October 18 — just seventeen days after this issue — the American flag was raised over San Juan and four centuries of Spanish rule in Puerto Rico ended. This illustration — whose print is held in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection — is a primary document of one of the most significant moments in Puerto Rican history. A significant and displayable piece for Puerto Rican history collectors and Spanish-American War enthusiasts.\n\n🏥 FULL PAGE — \"HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR IN PUERTO RICO\"\nA full-page illustration documenting the American effort to address the human cost of the campaign in Puerto Rico — the medical care, the rebuilding, and the first steps of what would become a century of American administration of the island. A significant piece of Puerto Rican social and humanitarian history.\n\n🏕️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN PUERTO RICO — ON THE SAN JUAN ROAD, PONCE\"\nA double-page centerfold of American troops on the road from Ponce toward San Juan — the main axis of Miles's campaign and the route along which Puerto Rico's future was being decided. A vivid and very frameable piece of the Puerto Rico campaign.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⛏️ THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n❄️ TWO FULL PAGES — \"WINTER SCENES IN THE KLONDIKE\"\nTwo full pages of winter Klondike Gold Rush scenes — the frozen Yukon in winter, when temperatures plunged to -60°F and the gold rush's most desperate and romantic chapter was lived out in darkness and extreme cold. Tens of thousands of prospectors had streamed northward in 1897-98; by the winter of 1898-99 many were still in the Klondike, enduring the brutal subarctic winter in their quest for gold. A vivid and collectible piece of Klondike Gold Rush history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n👑 EUROPEAN ROYAL HISTORY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n👑 FULL PAGE — \"TWO VIEWS OF THE CEREMONIES AT QUEEN WILHELMINA'S CORONATION\"\nTwo views of the coronation ceremonies of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands — who had ascended the throne on September 6, 1898, at age 18. Wilhelmina would reign for fifty years and lead her government in exile during the Nazi occupation of World War II, becoming one of the most consequential monarchs in Dutch history.\n\n🏛️ HALF PAGE — \"MOSCOW — DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT TO ALEXANDER II\"\nA half-page illustration of the dedication of the monument to Tsar Alexander II in Moscow — the reforming tsar who emancipated Russia's serfs in 1861 and was assassinated by a bomb in 1881, making this monument a significant piece of Russian imperial commemorative history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏋️ FULL PAGE — \"THE NEW FREE GYMNASIUM, FIFTY-THIRD STREET AND HUDSON RIVER, NEW YORK CITY\"\nA full-page illustration of a new free gymnasium on the Hudson River in New York — a significant piece of Gilded Age physical culture and New York City social history, reflecting the era's enthusiasm for exercise and public fitness facilities.\n\n✝️ PORTRAIT — \"REV. JOHN HALL, D.D.\"\nA portrait of Reverend John Hall — the celebrated Presbyterian minister who led Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York for nearly thirty years, one of the most prominent clergymen in America.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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