1866 Harpers Weekly June 9-New York Academy of music burns; Alcoholic; Tsar hero
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Harper's Weekly June 9, 1866 Original magazine Large format 12X16" . Inside News and prints: Ossip Ivanoff saves the Tsar of Russia's life; Count Bismarck - Prime Minister of Prussia; Napoleon speech at Auxerre in France; Full page prints: - New York Academy of Music burns, U.S. steam sloop of war Wampanoag; Alcoholic small cartoon A Chronicle of Succession; . Political cartoons. 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 . History [ edit ] Inception [ edit ] Harper & Brothers founders Fletcher , James , John and Joseph Wesley Harper (1860) Along with his brothers James, John, and Wesley, Fletcher Harper began the publishing company Harper & Brothers in 1825. Following the successful example of The Illustrated London News , Harper started publishing Harper's Magazine in 1850. The monthly publication featured established authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray , and within several years, demand for the magazine was great enough to sustain a weekly edition. [1] In 1857, his company began publishing Harper's Weekly in New York City. [1] By 1860 the circulation of the Weekly had reached 200,000. Illustrations were an important part of the Weekly' s content, and it developed a reputation for using some of the most renowned illustrators of the time, notably Winslow Homer , Granville Perkins , Porte Crayon , and Livingston Hopkins . Among the recurring features were the political cartoons of Thomas Nast , who was recruited in 1862 and worked with the Weekly for more than 20 years. Nast was a feared caricaturist, and is often called the father of American political cartooning. [2] He was the first to use an elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party . [3] He also drew the legendary character of Santa Claus ; his version became strongly associated with the figure, who was popularized as part of Christmas customs in the late nineteenth century. Civil War coverage [ edit ] Harper's Weekly artist Alfred Waud sketching the Gettysburg battlefield Portraits of escaped slave Gordon (July 4, 1863) Sherman's burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina , illustrated by William Waud (March 4, 1865) Harper's Weekly was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War. [4] [5 Full issues are nearly impossible to find. . Over One Million Magazines in stock. In the trade since 1976. Visit us at millionmagazines. Chosen Reflections/Million Magazines, Kaufman Texas 75142 Communicate, Like and Follow us on FB Your Ebay host here is Michael Sandusky, the author of many Romance-Adventure and Historical Fiction novels. You can find him on most online booksellers.
