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Paris Flood, Canada Athletes, Edison Street Car, Harper's Weekly Feb 5, 1910
$ 10.02
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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).
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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.