-40%

Paris Flood, Canada Athletes, Edison Street Car, Harper's Weekly Feb 5, 1910

$ 10.02

Availability: 22 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Ex-Library, separated from bound volume

    Description

    You are bidding on a complete original issue of Harper's Weekly published February 5, 1910. The pages measure approximately 10.5 x 15 inches (13 x 18 for center-folios) and this issue includes pages 3-36. 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.
    This Issue: Supplemental colored outer-cover last page is detached. A packed issue!
    Cover Page: Paris Floods
    Paris Floods with Map
    House of Governors
    Civic Federation Conference
    Dining Cars
    Holding Back Would-Be Citizens
    Acclimating the Rocky Mountain Goat
    "Julie" by Paul West
    Japan and Manchuria
    Canada's Athletic Prowess
    "The Political Chess-Board" centerfold by E. W. Kemble
    World of Music
    "The Posse" by Angus MacDonall
    Finance
    Graveyard  of Old Engines
    Edison's New Street-Car
    Railroads and Farmers, College on Wheels
    Supplemental Rear Cover Page, Perrier (detached).
    Please look at my feedback to witness
    sane pricing in action!
    I am not a book or paper dealer so please view pictures to determine condition.
    This lot will be packed flat and mailed first class USPS. I will pay half of the just under .00 cost for first class.
    Paypal please.
    Please view my present and soon-to-come Harper's Weekly listings and thanks for looking.
    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.