1857 Harpers Weekly April 4 - Issue #14 - Spiritualism; India Rubber - Rare

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Harper's Weekly

April 4, 1857

Volume 1, Number 14

Original Complete magazine 

Large format 12X16" . Inside News and prints: Should Spiritualists be indicted? The Chinese question; An Albany Dutchman in Holland - - 6 illustrations;  The story of India rubber - 5 illustrations; Some 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

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  • Condition: Good
  • Condition: as shown with some foxing.
  • Publication Month: April
  • Publication Year: 1857
  • Publication Frequency: Weekly
  • Language: English
  • Publication Name: Harper's Weekly
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Genre: News
  • Topic: News, General Interest

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