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Step back into 1887 America with this beautiful, complete issue of Harper’s Weekly, dated July 23, 1887 — packed with rich illustrations, period journalism, and collectible engravings ideal for framing. 📜🖼️This issue includes several highly desirable full-page and multi-image spreads, including:🌳 Featured Illustrations“Lincoln Park, Chicago” — a gorgeous full-page landscape print“In the Lodges of the Blackfeet Indians” — strong ethnographic imagery capturing daily life“Manitou, Colorado” — sweeping Rocky Mountain vistas and town views“Nahant and Swampscott, Massachusetts Bay” — charming coastal New England scenes“Life Among the Tenements” — an incredibly detailed and historically important New York City street-life illustration“The Unbeaten Race-Horse Hanover” — fine, frame-worthy half-page print of one of the most famous racehorses of the era
Plus serialized fiction, political commentary, advertisements (Colgate, Westinghouse, Waltham Watches, and more!), and rich period reportage.
---📐 SIZEApprox. 11" × 16", the standard folio format for Harper’s Weekly.
---⭐ CONDITIONVery Good overall for a 137-year-old newspaper.Clean pages with strong impressionsMinor edge wear / small binding holes (typical of disbound copies)No major tears or lossesBright, sharp engravings perfect for display
This is a complete issue, not a fragment.
---🖼️ FRAMING OPTION AVAILABLEI offer archival, museum-quality framing for any single-page or double-page illustration:Acid-free mattingUV-protective acrylicMultiple mat & frame colorsShipped ready to hang
Perfect for office décor, libraries, horse enthusiasts, Western art lovers, Chicago historians, and anyone who appreciates late-19th-century Americana.
---🎁 A GREAT GIFT FOR:Historians & educatorsWestern Americana collectorsChicago, Colorado, New England, or NYC enthusiastsInterior decoratorsAnyone who loves antique illustration---📦 SHIPPINGPackaged with archival backing and rigid protection for safe transit.
