Football, Income Tax, Meat Cuts, Harper's Weekly Complete, Feb 19, 1910

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You are bidding on a complete original issue of Harper's Weekly published Feb 19, 1910.  With beautiful colored covers the pages measure approximately 10.5 x 15 inches (13 x 18 for center-folios) and this issue includes 36 pages. All pages may not be shown due to space constraints. Great pictures, humor, science, literature, sports, theatre, history, news of the day, and wonderful old ads. Most issues are replete with politics and New York City doings.
It is 1910
. The "Progressive Era."
William H. Taft
is the U.S. president. The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated. The Westmorland coal strike is at its height.
Henry Ford
sells 10,000 automobiles. African-American boxer
Jack Johnson
defeats white boxer
James Jeffries
, sparking race riots throughout the country. Meanwhile, the greatest fire in U.S. history, the "Great Fire of 1910," rages
in the west.
Color Cover Page:
Cameo
Inner Cover: "The Proof of the Porridge"
H.G. Williamson
The Income Tax Amendment
Memorial to Phillips Brooks
With the Revolutionists in Nicaragua
Advertising the Colleges
The Lesson of the "Meat Map"
"The Anvil Chorus"
Anton Fischer
, centerfold
The Football Reformers
"Shinny On Your Own Side"
Wm. L. Jacobs
Finance, Bond Market
Color Rear Cover Page: Napoleon Flour
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Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.