14 Consecutive Harper's Weekly 3/9 - 6/8/1895
U.S. & World Events, Far East Wars

Covers, illustrations, and contents suited to historic artifact collectors, art framers/resellers,
and students of news media and graphical arts history

Fascinating collection of articles, serial tales, and ads as if you were there over 130 years ago, with renowned authors and illustrators, intriguing science, adventure, politics cartoons, strife, current events, and future forecasts!!

Cover Dates, Titles, & Key Topics:
  • Mar. 9: After the Matinee ~~ Two Years of Cleveland's Administration ~~ British Politics ~~ Money, Currency, and Banking ~~ Cannibal Uprising in Fiji ~~ "The Red Cockade" ~~ Earliest Puritan Voyage ~~ World's Transportation Commission in Algiers and Oran ~~ Reform in San Francisco ~~ Shanty-Boat People ~~ Street Cleaning ~~ Rackets, a Game for Athletes ~~ Yachting in Southern Waters
  • Mar. 16: "Reading the Will, a Few Legacies Left by the Defunct Congress" ~~ Colorado's Golden Lining ~~ New Submarine Torpedo-Boat for the United States Navy ~~ Along the Dalmatian Coast ~~ North River Bridge ~~ Proposed Hudson River Suspension-Bridge ~~ New Library in Boston ~~ British Aggression in Venezuela ~~ Collecting a Million Stamps ~~ The Story of a Portrait ~~ "Tucker's Tour" ~~ Disappearance of Western Big Game
  • Mar. 23: "Clear Ship for Action" ~~ Odious Income Tax ~~ Blots on Our Civilization ~~ Australian Problem ~~ Trolley Ambulance Car ~~ Boston's Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Women ~~ Signs of Peace in Asia ~~ Two Old Roman Cities of the Dalmatian Coast ~~ New York Public Library ~~ Morocco ~~ Australian Federation New Departure ~~ Winter Entertaining in the Country ~~ League of American Wheelmen ~~ Defence of the Two-Class System in Bicycle-Racing
  • Mar. 30: "Gresham Fires Back, Effect of the Windage on the Jingoes" ~~ Bismarck's Birthday ~~ Americanism and Jingoism ~~ Shall the People Govern? ~~ New Olympiad ~~ Satan's Share in Clubs ~~ Headquarters of the Salvation Army ~~ North Atlantic Squadron: "Form Double Column! Heads of Divisions, Left Turn!" ~~ Eccentricity of Criticism ~~ Egypt ~~ Great Yerkes Telescope and Observatory ~~ Hawaiian Minister ~~ In-Door Lawn-Tennis ~~ Harvard Football Situation
  • Apr. 6: "Prisoners and Captives" ~~ Struggle for Reform ~~ Monroe Doctrine ~~ Prospects of International Bimetallism ~~ Value of Good Roads ~~ At the American Artists' ~~ Metropolitan Opera-House, New York ~~ Our Seaboard Universities ~~ Suez Canal ~~ Suez Canal Railway ~~ Niagara Harnessed ~~ Man-of-War in a Fort ~~ Collecting Naval Intelligence ~~ United States Steamship "Petrel" ~~ Rocky Mountain Trout ~~ How They Taught Me Polo ~~ Yale View of the Football Situation
  • Apr. 13: "The Only Bipartisan Machine the People Will Tolerate" ~~ The Presidency and the Money Question ~~ Signs of Promise ~~ California and Its Monopoly ~~ In and About Havana, Cuba ~~ Degeneration ~~ Cuban Revolution ~~ Recently Discovered Picture by Botticelli ~~ "Teckla's Lilies" ~~ China's Own Mirror ~~ Coaching in Chihuahua ~~ Tobacco ~~ Aden ~~ Foundations for Tall Buildings ~~ War in the East ~~ Bowling
  • Apr. 20: War in the East ~~ Income-Tax Decision ~~ Socialism and Patriotism ~~ Common-Sense in Athletics ~~ The Man Who Lashed Farragut to the Rigging ~~ University of the City of New York ~~ The Quest of the Holy Grail ~~ Rapid Transit on Chicago ~~ Opening the Yankton Reservation ~~ Hunting with Beagles
  • Apr. 27: "A Perilous Situation" ~~ United States as a Great Power ~~ Cost of the Postal Service ~~ The New Coast-Defence Monitor "Amphitrite" ~~ The "Peacock" and "Epervier" ~~ Ibsen Influence ~~ Noway's Struggle for Independence ~~ Lone Star Republic ~~ Tennessee River Improvements ~~ Ceylon ~~ Sketches in Bermuda ~~ Inter-Collegiate Basball
  • May 4: English Yachts "Ailsa" and"Britannia" Racing in the Mediterranean ~~ Tainted Leadership ~~ Influence of Public Opinion ~~ Partition of Africa ~~ New Railway Entrance to Manhattan Island ~~ Forestry and Thrift ~~ Army Uniforms ~~ Formosa, China's Most Important Island ~~ Spring and the Sportsman ~~ Japanese in Formosa ~~ Knighthoods and Baronnetcies of English Journalists ~~ Great Britain and Nicaragua ~~ Socialism and the Referendum
  • May 11: "All Broke Up" the Only Cure for a Financial Spree ~~ Japan and the Powers ~~ Threatened Victims of the Silver Movement ~~ Some Abuses of Criminal Law ~~ "Sylvia's" Transatlantic Voyage ~~ Sandy Hook Light-Ship No. 51 - The Only Electric Light-Ship in the World ~~ Fort Snelling, Old and New ~~ Evolution of the Amateur Pitcher ~~ Comanche Sorpresa ~~ Kiel Canal ~~ Winter Shooting on the Gulf Coast of Florida
  • May 18: "I Began the Retreat as I Intended" by Frederic Remington ~~ Party Politics and Good Government ~~ United States and Spanish America ~~ England and Rome ~~ War on the Waring ~~ New Hopes for Horse-Racing ~~ Russia and the Chino-Japanese Treaty ~~ Naval Battle at Wei-Hai-Wei ~~ Colonel of the First Cycle Infantry ~~ Hydraulic Mining in California ~~ Torpedo-Boats and Their Attack ~~ High Jinks in Art ~~ University of California Track Athletic Team ~~ Southern Development
  • May 25: "Will He Be Buncoed? It Was Greenbacks; It Is Now Silver; and Always Fiat Money" ~~ Great Event in Germany ~~ Campaign Against Free Coinage ~~ The Bering Sea Situation ~~ The Spirit of the Navy ~~ Sculpture Society's Exhibition ~~ Railways of Ceylon ~~ Situation in Korea ~~ The Moving of a Modern Caravan ~~ Fort Adams
  • Jun. 1: "A Backhanded Blow" ~~ Income-Tax Cases ~~ Soldiers' Homes: A Study in Gratitude ~~ The Cornell Crews
  • Jun. 8: Walter Quinton Gresham ~~ Campaign Against Silver Monometallism ~~ Reforms in Turkey ~~ Two Worthy Knights ~~ The "Chesapeake" and the "Shannon" ~~ University of North Carolina Centennial Celebration ~~ Luxuries of Yachting ~~ Havana, Cuba Water-Front ~~ Great Golf Match ~~ Inter-Collegiate Collegiate Games at Berkeley Oval, New York

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