{"product_id":"harper-s-weekly-january-8-1887-dramatic-fire-scene-sporting-dogs-lumber-raft-general-logan-fu","title":"Harper’s Weekly – January 8, 1887,  Dramatic Fire Scene • Sporting Dogs • Lumber Raft • General Logan Fu","description":"Offered here is an authentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly: The Journal of Civilization, dated January 8, 1887. This issue is packed with dramatic illustrations, historic events, and rich late-Victorian advertising. A strong issue for collectors of American history, military history, frontier life, and early sporting prints.\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Highlights of This Issue\n\n🔥 Full-Page Engraving: “Burning of the Temple Theatre at Philadelphia”\n\nA dramatic firefighting scene, showing engines, ladders, crowds, and the full intensity of a major urban fire. A powerful display print.\n\n🪓 Full-Page: “A Lumber Raft”\n\nA beautifully detailed engraving showing lumbermen at work on a massive timber raft — an iconic image of late-19th-century American industry and frontier culture.\n\n🐕 Full-Page: “Field Trial of Sporting Dogs at High Point, North Carolina”\n\nA superb hunting print depicting sportsmen, pointers, setters, and field-trial action. Highly collectible for hunting, dog, and sporting art enthusiasts.\n\n🇺🇸 Full-Page: “The Funeral of General Logan”\n\nJohn A. Logan, Civil War general and 1884 Republican vice-presidential candidate, is shown lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. An important piece of political and military history.\n\n❄️ Half-Page: “A Snow Blockade in the Northwest”\n\nA vivid scene of railroads and towns brought to a standstill by massive snow drifts — perfect for collectors of railroad history and winter Americana.\n\n📰 Additional Content Includes:\n\nSatire, illustrated news, and national commentary\n\nPortrait engravings\n\nPolitical analysis and social reporting\n\nExtensive Victorian advertising (soaps, pianos, remedies, patented devices, watches, early medical ads, etc.)\n\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Condition (VG \/ Very Good)\n\nComplete in 16 pages\n\nClean, bright interior pages\n\nLight wear along the binding edge from removal from a bound volume\n\nA strong, displayable example of a desirable HW issue\n\n\n\n---\n\n🖼 Archival Framing Available\n\nI offer professional archival framing with:\n✓ Acid-free matting\n✓ UV-protective acrylic\n✓ Options for single pages or double-page centerfolds\nPerfect for the fire scene, lumber raft, sporting dogs print, or Logan funeral engraving.\n\n\n---","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017756380,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/ccfba538-il_fullxfull.7413057612_pujh.jpg?v=1786496674","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/harper-s-weekly-january-8-1887-dramatic-fire-scene-sporting-dogs-lumber-raft-general-logan-fu","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}