Raynors HCA 2018-10
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Each bound volume contains 52 issues, 16pp., highly illustrated by renoun period artists , with national news and commentary. Each volume is tight and VG. 1866; 52 issue 1/6: Front: The Last Chattel (old black man sitting on stump). Inside: View of Ex-Gov. Wise's residence near Norfolk; Emigration to Washington Territory; Map of Mississippi. 1/13: Front, Edwin Forrest Booth portrait. Inside, Mounted Messenger Attacked by Indians; map of Alabama. Center, collage related to Metropolitan Fire Dept. 1/20: Front, funeral for German Patriots in Texas. Inside, winter scene by Edwin Forbes; types of American beauties; Edward Ketchum sentenced. 1/27: Front, Indian delegation from Nebraska to Washington. Inside, Jack Frost among Rich and Poor; Journey of correspondent on the Plains. 2/3: Front, Birds in Winter. Inside: Old Folks at Home and Young Folks Abroad; The Lost Found (solider grave found by parents); map of Louisiana. Center, Collage of Iron-Clad Navy of U.S. 2/10: Front, Princess of Wales with Infant Prince Albert Victor. Inside, Grand Charity Ball; Leaving the Matinee; The Great Skating Rink at Chicago; "Blind Tom" the celebrated pianist. 2/17: Front, Gambling scene in Denver. Center: St. Valentine's Day. Inside: Grand reception of 7th Regiment. 2/24: Front, collage of portraits of George Washington. Inside art and text about life of Washington; Foundering of steamship London. Center: Vertical art of President Lincoln Entering Richmond. 3/3: Front, Naval race of "Winooski" and "Algonquin". Inside: Mississippi conference of Methodist churches; Reception of 90th NY veterans. Center: collage of 30 illustrations of Iron-Clad Fleet of England. 3/10: Front, Display of fireworks on Washington's birthday. Inside: President Johnson addressing citizens; Caught Napping (school teacher whomps sleeping student); ladies fashions. 3/17: Front, Snuffing the Candle for Grandpa. Inside: Railroad bridge across Hudson at Albany; Center is collage of scenes in Jerusalem. 3/24: Front, Paying pensioners in NYC. Inside, Charles Sumner portrait/text; (center) Queen Victoria opens Parliament; Windy Day on Union Square; Landing of enormous elephant at NYC. 3/31: Front, art/text on Billiards. Inside: View from Lima; (center collage) Ireland and the Fenian leaders; launch of steam-yacht "Ross Winans". 4/7: Front, Fenian Conspiracy prisoners under guard. Inside: Thaddeus Stevens portrait/text; Scene in Pekin; Paris fashions for 1866; Home for London poor. 4/14: Front, Curt Reply (English recollection). Inside, Great Fire in Cincinnati; (center) collage of notables at the Grand Masquerade Ball (by Thomas Nast); Robert E. Lee in civilian life. 4/21: Front, Abraham Lincoln School for Freedmen in New Orleans. Inside, Prof. Louis Agassiz portrait/text; Indians attack Overland Dispatch; Scens from the Plains and street view in Santa Fe, NM. 4/28: Front, Government auction on levee at Cairo, Ill. Inside and center, Scenes from the passage of the Civil Rights Bill; Capitol grounds on day of Congress adjournment. 5/5: Front, Colored Orphan's Asylum in Memphis. Inside, Alexander Stephens portait/text; scenes along rivers in Memphis, Louisville and Nashville. 5/12: Front, The Levee at Cincinnati. Inside, Blacks haul cotton in NC; scene from Shockoe Creek Valley (Va.); celebration of abolition of slavery by colored people in DC. 5/19: Front, Bombardment of Valparaiso by Spanish Fleet. Another scene from this event on centerspread). Inside: Mustered Out Colored Troops at Little Rock; William Gladstone portrait/text. 5/26: Front, Shooting down Negroes in Memphis Riot. Inside, Edwin Stanton portrait/text. River scenes and plantations in South; Washington Market NYC. 6/2: Front, Fiction story. Inside, Office of Freedmen's Bureau in Memphis; collage of arsenal grounds in Little Rock; Gen. Steedman's tour of Lynchburg; Grand reception of Fenian Chief James Stephens. 6/9: Fiction story from previous issue. Inside, Scenes from St. Petersburg; Burning of NY Academy of Music; scenes from Negro settlements and church in New Bern, NC. 6/16: Front, Tribute to career of Winfield Scott, with large portrait and death-bed scene inside as well as centerspread of his burial and five other illustrations from his campaigns. 6/23: Front, Wall Street NYC. Inside, Group of Southern Methodist Bishops; Scenes from Primary School for Freedmen in Vicksburg; May Day Festival in New Orleans; scenes from fire at Saratoga. 6/30: Front, By Nast, a scene from the Georgia Campaign (war). Inside, Bunker Hill monument; "The Contrast of Suffering in Andersonville and Fortress Monroe" (satire about imprisonment of Jeff Davis by Nast); Marriage of a colored solider at Vicksburg. 7/7: Scenes from Baltimore Regatta. Inside, Review of NY Yacht Club; (center), map of Middle Europe; Thomas Nast piercing satire of "Why He (Jeff Davis) Can't Sleep (Union ghosts haunt him); scenes from NY dog pound and the city morgue. 7/14: Front, Oliver Cromwell story/art. Inside, Uprising of Italy (Nast); Center panoramics of Natchez and Vicksburg; A Duel in New Orleans. 7/21: Front, Among the Ruins of Columbia, SC. Inside, A Cock Fight and Creole Amusements in New Orleans; (center) collage of about two dozen illustrations of the Catskill Mountains; Clara Barton and Andersonville relics. 7/28: Front, Great Fire in Portland, Maine (more on inside pages and centerspread). Inside, scarred Negro punished in Richmond; new bathing costumes. 8/4: Front, Papa's Coming (family greets returning husband). Inside, Princess Helena and Prince Christian; Secret Meeting of Southern Unionists; Conflict in Charleston. Center is St. Peter's in Rome. 8/11: Front, Review of NJ State Militia. Inside, Henry Ward Beecher's churches (3); Center and other scenes related to the laying of the Atlantic Cable; Alabamians receive rations. 8/18: Front, scene in American Telegraph Office NYC. Inside, scenes from New Orleans. Center is collage of scenes from Great Salt Lake, Utah. 8/25: Front, Murder of Rev. Horton and riot in New Orleans. Six more illustrations on the riot inside. Inside, Samuel Morse portrait/text; portraits of Harvard Regatta crew. 9/1: Front, The Wigwam at Philadelphia Convention. More inside. Center: Vertical NAST take on Johnson's Reconstruction and How It Works. More on the New Orleans Riot. 9/8: Front, Magnolia Grove in Mobile. Inside, Scenes from Baton Rouge; A Game of Croquet; Three-Card Monte on Coney Island. NAST cutting satire, "Timely Warning to Union Men - Convention or Massacre?" 9/15: Front, President Johnson's Reception in NYC. Portrait and more illustrations and text inside. Inside, Negro quarters on Jeff Davis' plantation; "Old Abe" the eagle; Squaws weave a blanket; Monument to Stephen Douglas. 9/22: Front, Southern Loyalists Convention in Philadelphia. More inside and on centerspread. Inside, Billiard tournament in NYC. 9/29: Front, Disaster of New York Central Railroad. Inside, Accident at Johnstown, Pa.; Man carried over Niagara Falls; Burning of the Clipper "Hornet"; full page NAST on the "Tearful Convention". 10/6: Front, A Centennial Song. Inside, The Coliseum at Rome; Board of Health at NYC tenement house; (center) Distinguished men of Methodism; "Storm on the Prairie"; Toasting Jeff Davis. 10/13: Front, Soldier and Sailors' Convention at Pittsburg. Inside, collage of Life on the Plains; Acadians hauling boats on Bayou Lafourche; (center) Inauguration of Race-Course at Jerome Park; collage of Zoo at Central Park NYC. 10/20: Front, Washing Day Among the Acadians (Cajuns) in Louisiana. Inside, Fire at St. Patrick's NYC; Louisiana Ferry Boat; scene of Cumberland, Maryland; pair of National Cemetery views. 10/27: Front, Lady Lobbyists at the White House. Inside, three shipwreck scenes; (center) a collage of snide President Andrew Johnson illustrations, "Andy's Trip," by Thomas Nast; four scenes from Galveston. 11/3: Front, Uncle Tom and Grandchild. Inside, three views of Quebec; full page NAST on "King Andy (Johnson)"; The Atlantic Baseball Club of Brooklyn and the Athletics of Philadelphia. 11/10: Front, Arkansas Travelers. Inside, two scenes picking up Atlantic Cable; Mexican Indians bringing goods to market; presentation of medals to veterans of Brooklyn; barbecue at Augusta, Ga. 11/17: Hurricane in the Bahamas. Inside, Archbishops of the Catholic Church in Baltimore; (center) scenes from Venice; organ-grinder street musician; military scenes from Matamoras, Mexico. 11/24: Front, Launch of the steamer "Great Republic". Inside, collecting remains of Union soldiers for re-interment in national cemeteries; Gen. Sherman departs for Mexico; election returns in front of the NY Tribune. 12/1: Front, Choosing the Wedding Gown. Inside, varieties in ladies head gear; Banquet in honor of Cyrus Field; Washington's entrance into NYC 1783. 12/8: Front, The Charity Patient. Inside, Mastodan bones discovered; parade of Metro Fire Dept.; (center) collage of Thanksgiving illustrations; cypress swamp in Louisiana. 12/15: Front, Interior dome of the U.S. Capitol. Inside, Treasury and State departments in Washington; Parade of First Division New York State Militia; Zion School for Colored Children in Charleston. 12/22: Front, Mississippi Steamboat landing at night. Inside, Mission school children receiving lunch; Phil. And Baltimore RR bridge across Susquehanna; Yachts in Grand Race across Atlantic; "Taking A Whale". 12/29: Front, The Settler's Christmas Eve. Inside, Hauling Home the Christmas Boughs; Wise Men Follow the Star in the East; Bethlehem, Home of the Holy Nativity; fine NAST centerspread collage "Santa Claus and His Works." Jan. 4-Dec. 26, 1868 Harper's; 51 issues in a bound volume of Harper's Weekly, Jan. 4-Dec. 26, 1868. Stories mentioned all accompanied by illustrations. Assorted THOMAS NAST cartoons throughout. Seven illustrrations by WINSLOW HOMER. 1/4: Front, Sisters of Mercy aid the poor. Inside, Railroad disaster in Vermont; Bachelor's Christmas Dinner; New Year's Day among The Ancient (and Modern) Knickerbockers. 1/11: Front, The Pioneer. Inside: Angola Railroad Disaster (3 views); The Barnyard; Art Students and Copyists in the Louvre (by WINSLOW HOMER); Hog slaughtering in Cincinnati (5 views); Tornado in the West Indies. 1/18: Front, Explosion ion Clerkenwell Prison London. Inside: A Study for Bachelors (2); Grandmother's Come!; Day Dreams of the Past; A vessel Escaping From Icebergs. 1/25: Front, Effects of a Tidal Wave on a Ship. Inside, Winter-A Skating Scene (HOMER); (center collage) Among the Wreckers on the NJ Coast; James Payne, third president of Liberia. 2/1: Front, "A Local Item" (story). Inside, British Ship "Galetea" in Cyclone; (center) Chief Justice and Associate Judges of Supreme Court of US; political satire with Romeo & Juliet theme. 2/8: Front, Ragged children beg on winter street. Inside, collage of Art Schools in NYC; Overland Mail Coach Crossing Rockies; Winter Scenes on the Sea-Railroad; Story of a Pauper; Negroes at rest and play on a Southern plantation. 2/15: Front, The Great Fire in Chicago. Inside, Avalanche on an Alpine Pass; Relieving the Poor in NYC; People Walk Along Broadway; Buffalo Attacked by Wolves; Indians Fishing for Salmon in Oregon (2). 2/22: Front, The Dead Letter Office in DC. Inside, Washington politics with Julius Caesar theme; St. Valentines Day (HOMER). 2/29: Front, Guests at Party Leave into Snow. Inside, Stuart's Portrait of Washington; Scene in a Hospital for Incurables on Blackwell Island; New Suspension Bridge Over Ohio River in Cincinnati. 3/4: Front, Reporters' Gallery in House of Representatives. Inside, Children in Sleigh Pulled by Dogs; The French Poacher at Bay; Wolves Attacking A Stag on the Ice. 3/14: Front, Impeachment [of President Johnson]-Thaddeus Stevens and John Bingham Before Senate (more inside). Inside, (center) Interior of the House of Representatives in Session; The Streets of New York; Colored People Gathering Wood in Virginia. 3/21: Front, Managers to Conduct the Impeachment of President Johnson (more inside). Inside, President Johnson's Levee at the White House; Animals During the Burning of Barnum's Museum (and one icy exterior scene). 3/28: Front, President Johnson served with summons for impeachment. Inside, Western Prairie Farmer Plows Fire Guard Line; Young Ladies School Promenades (HOMER); Diogenes Searches for an Honest Man; Death of Columbus. 4/4: Front, The Model Maker. Inside, Scenes from IMPEACHMENT trial; (center) Funeral of the late Admiral Henry Bell; Explosion and burning of steamer "Magnolia." 4/11: Front, Scenes from impeachment trial. Inside, Admiral Farragut in the shrouds of the "Hartford"; (center) Senate as court of impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Disraeli Making his first Speech in English House of Commons. 4/18: Front, The Mariner's Children. Inside, scenes from the impeachment trial including full page of Ladies Gallery in impeachment trial. 4/25: Front, Statue of Tigress in Central Park. Inside, Charity-A scene in Trinity Church; New England Puritans Going to Church; Burning of the steamer "Sea Bird". 5/2: Front, Wrecked and burning cars in Erie RR Disaster. Inside, Raid on illicit whisky stills in Brooklyn; Sioux Indians Prepare Ambush on Settlers; Scenes from Japanese Revolution. 5/9: Front, Dressing the Baby. Inside, Plowing on the Prairies; Springtime in the Country; Conveying Silver to the City of Mexico. 5/16: Front, George Sands, president of the National Baseball Association. Inside, Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago; May Day in the Country; Sad widow "Cannot Sing the Old Songs"; Street Auction scene in NYC. 5/23: Front, The Little Woman (girl peels apples in kitchen). Inside, High Celebration of Easter Day; Furt Traders on the Missouri Attacked by Indians; collage art of The House of Refuge on Randall's Island. 5/30: Front, Columbus Explains His Discovery to Ferdinand and Isabella. Inside, pair of President Johnson Impeachment scenes; (center collage) commercial relations among New York, Hong Kong and London; A Virginia Deer Hunt. 6/6: Front, Tribute to GEN. U.S. GRANT. Inside, Portraits of Grant and Schuyler Colfax; scenes from the Republican Convention; Country dwellers read of the nomination of Grant. 6/13: Front, Parade of Brooklyn Sunday School Children. Inside, Formally tendering nomination to GRANT; Chinese Embassy members; Plans for suspension bridge over Hudson River; Raising trout on a NJ fish farm. 6/20: Front, Duck guards young from predators. Inside, Decorating soldier graves near Brooklyn. This is THE FIRST RECORDING of what would become MEMORIAL DAY, three years after the Civil War ended, when the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Also, illustrations of Life of an Indian; Peddler's Wagon; DEATH of ex-President JAMES BUCHANAN. 6/27: Front, Political Niagara-Man Clutches at Straw. Inside, Duel between COLORED MEN in Savannah; Opening race at Jerome Park; Texas Hailstorm; Cadets Regatta. 7/4: Front, Crowds on the Grounds of the White House on a Saturday Afternoon. Inside, (center collage) Cadet Life at West Point; Scenes from NY Yacht Club; Explosion of Steam Fire Engine in Bowery. 7/11: Front, The New Tammany Hall on E. 14th St., NYC. Inside, Capsizing of the "Little Webster" in Lake Michigan; The Shooting Grounds at Jones' Woods NYC; Refugees from Abyssinian War; Black Groom and White Bride at Tammany Hall (political); Fireworks on the Night of July 4th (HOMER). 7/18: Front, Schutzenfest Procession at Union Square (five more illustrations inside). Inside, (center) Interior of Tammany Hall for Democratic Convention; America Meets China (NAST full page); Washing and shearing sheep in the country. 7/25: Front, Horatio Seymour, Democratic NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT (F.P. Blair for vice president inside). Inside, Negroes Electioneering in the South; New England Factory Life (HOMER); The Freedmen's Bureau Confrontation. 8/1: Front, Rescued from the Dog Pound. Inside, Water Spouts (3); The British Lion Disarmed (NAST); A Rush for the Country (RR station scene); At The Sea-Side; A Cricket Match. 8/8: Front, Three scenes from the Great Flood in Maryland. More inside. Inside, Sunday Morning in the Fourth Ward; The "Wickedest Man In New York" in five illustrations (John Allen, keeper of a dance house on Water Street); Hunting the Polar Bear. 8/15: Front, RECONSTRUCTION (by NAST). Inside, Two scenes from the Labor Exchange; three scenes from the Maryland Flood; The Village Depot; New York High and Low Scenes. 8/22: Front, Rogers modeling the Statue of America in Rome. Inside, An Indian Expedition; On the Docks After a Hot Day; The Beach at Long Branch; The Toilers of the Sea. 8/29: Front, The body of Thaddeus Stevens Lying in State at the Capitol (inside are death bed scene and portrait). Inside, (center) collage of scenes from the cattle plague; Methodist camp-meeting at Sing-Sing. 9/5: Front, The Pet Calf. Inside, Operations of custom agents in NYC; "This Is A White Man's Government": "Left Behind" (widow and orphan grieve); scenes in Alaska; Chinese Wedding at Shanghai. 9/12: Front, Tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. Inside, Camp-Meeting at Martha's Vineyard; collage from Prospect Park in Brooklyn; First Bird of the Season (hunting dogs compete); sketches of NYC life. 9/19: Front, Prayer Meeting in the "Wickedest Man's" Dance-Hall. Inside, scenes from Macon, Ga.; (satire) Lead Us Not Into Temptation; Indians Attack a Wagon Train; New York "Street Arabs". Sept. 26 issue missing in binding process, not removed. 10/3: Front, Prize Animals at the New Hampshire Fair. Inside, Dead Soldier and His Faithful Dog; Trial and execution of assassin Patrick Whelan; "The Modern Samson" (Nast); The Earthquake in Peru; The Freedmen's Schools. 10/10: Front, The Water Drinkers in Spain. Inside, Yacht Race; Eathquakes in South America; Patience On A Monument (Plight of Negroes in America by NAST); Examining and Swearing Naturalized Citizens; Attack of Indians on a "bull train" in Kansas. 10/17: Front, "Boys In Blue" March in Philadelphia (another view inside). Inside, Experiments with Life-Saving Apparatus; Statue of Commodore Perry; collage of Scenes in the Life of a Trapper; The Country Church Before Service; Col. Forsyth's Engagement with Indians. 10/24: Front, collage of NAST political cartoons. Inside, Grand Demonstration of Democrats in NYC; Floating for deer in the Adirondacks; (center) collage of NAST cartoons Blue vs. Gray; Giant 30-foot fish caught in Maine; The War in Paraguay. 10/31: A Toast to Our Next President (by HOMER). Inside, Sunday at Sea; Good Times Coming (politica hopes); "Stop, Thief," NYC street scene; scenes from Chicago stock and grain markets. 11/7: Front, Wilkes Booth the Second (NAST). Inside, At the Market (Richmond, Va.); The Horses' Morning Bath at Calcutta. Statue of Maj-Gen. John Sedgwick at West Point. 11/14: Front, Victory! (depicts Grant slaying KKK in battle. Inside, Spanish Revolution; Court-House in San Jose, Calif.; collage of Duck Hunting scenes; collage of Burial Ceremonies of the Kaw Indians; Street scenes in NYC. 11/21: Front, Petroleum vs. Nasby, Ex-Postmaster. Inside, Murder of Rev. B.F. Randolph, black SC pastor; laying cornerstone of YMCA in NYC; Mustangs in Texas; Harlem Lane on Sunday Afternoon; Unconditional Surrender Grant (accepts surrender of political foes); Sketches in the Adirondacks. 11/28: Front, Scenes from Havana, Cuba. Inside, Trapping Wild Turkeys; Preparing for Thanksgiving; First Thanksgiving Dinner; The Fulton Ferry-Boat Collision. 12/5: Front, The Late Baron James de Rothschild. Inside, Houdon's Statue of Washington; National Christian Convention in NYC; Sheridan on the Move in the Indian War; Holiday in the Woods; Chain-Gang at Richmond; Hoosac Train Tunnel. 12/12: Front, Whipping Post and Pillory at New Castle, Delaware. Inside, H. Rives Pollard assassination (portrait. He was editor of the Southern Opinion); Interior of an Alaskan Indian Hut; The Last Re,ic (mother with children pawns watch); Revolution in Cuba; Negro News-Boys in Richmond. 12/19: Front, Presentation of Kelly Medal in Public Grammar School. Inside, Custer and 7th Cavalry Charging into Black Kettle's Village at Daylight (3 illustrations); Burning of Fort Lafayette in NY Harbor; Collage of winter scenes; The American Velocipede (2 views); Two Ku-Klux Klan members in Disguises. 12/26: Front, Fishing for Pickerel Through the Ice. Inside, Steamboat Disaster on the Ohio River; The Holy Family; Prisoners Captured by Gen. Custer in his Indian Campaign; Preparing for Christmas; The Game Stall on Fulton Street in NYC.
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