Printed on Cotton Rag Paper.
Harper's Weekly was the best paper of its time! Great collector's newspaper!
Woodcuts, illustrations, news, advertisements, and more!!!
Articles include: Contraband of War, England & the Rebellion, Covert Treason, The Murder of Colonel Ellsworth, The Advance into Virginia, Patriotism and Party, England-The Queen's Proclamation, The Guthrie Grays, etc. Illustrations include Uniforms of the Fifth Regiment NY Volunteers [cover page], The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge over the Potomac [Homer Print], The Late Colonel Ellsworth, Ellsworth's Zouaves, Pictorial Map of the Seat of War, Showing Parts of the States of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina, And Many More! This volume includes the serialization of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations!
Great advertisements and Political Cartoons!
16 pages of news articles. Newspaper is in excellent, readable condition! Little discoloration and crisp pages!
DON'T LET THIS HARPER'S GET BY YOU!
History's Mysteries...explained as history was being written...
Why settle for history explained/interpreted in some book 50-150-300 years later when you can buy papers that report was was happening when it was happening...and for small money. Historic newspapers are the greatest value among all collectibles and they speak to us in our own language.
Chev Harry Schultz, the world's highest paid investment consultant, as reported in many issues of the Guinness Book of Records, says that "historical newspapers are the thinking man's collectible."
You could pay up to $3400 an hour to be told this or read it here free!!!
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Thanks for looking , AS/NOK