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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 SIZE
Approx. 11" × 16", the standard folio format for Harper’s Weekly.
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⭐ CONDITION
Very Good overall for a 137-year-old newspaper.
Clean pages with strong impressions
Minor edge wear / small binding holes (typical of disbound copies)
No major tears or losses
Bright, sharp engravings perfect for display
This is a complete issue, not a FRAMING OPTION AVAILABLE
I offer archival, museum-quality framing for any single-page or double-page illustration:
Acid-free matting
UV-protective acrylic
Multiple mat & frame colors
Shipped ready to hang
Perfect for office décor, libraries, horse enthusiasts, Western art lovers, Chicago historians, and anyone who appreciates late-19th-century A GREAT GIFT FOR:
Historians & educators
Western Americana collectors
Chicago, Colorado, New England, or NYC enthusiasts
Interior decorators
Anyone who loves antique SHIPPING
Packaged with archival backing and rigid protection for safe transit.
