1899 Full-Year Bound Harper's Weekly Complete
End of 1800s, War Recovery, Automobiles, Admiral George Dewey, Theodore Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Frederic Remington, Mark Twain

Covers (missing spine cover), 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 almost 130 years ago, with renowned authors and illustrators, intriguing science, adventure, politics cartoons, strife, current events, and future forecasts!!

Cover Dates & Titles:

  • Jan. 7: Ice-Yachting - "Hard-a-Lee!"
  • Jan. 14: Our New Citizens: A Native Family in Iloilo
  • Jan. 21: Paris: The Last Session of the American and Spanish Peace Commissioners
  • Jan. 28: The Evacuation of Havana: Farewell Courtesies Between Spanish and American Officers in the Palace as Twelve O'Clock Struck
  • Feb. 4: Havana: 10th U. S. Cavalry Quelling a Tumult Aroused by the Display of the Spanish Flag on a Business House
  • Feb. 11: St. Valentine's Day Two Centuries Ago - Cupid or Iroquois?
  • Feb. 18: Cuba: Special-Commissioner Robert P. Porter Arranging with General Gomez at Remedios for the Disbandment of the Cuban Army
  • Feb. 25: The Blizzard of 1899: Hard Work of the Fire Department in Responding to the Frequent Alarms
  • Mar. 4: Skee-Running on the Snow-Covered Hills of Oregon
  • Mar. 11: Admiral George Dewey, U. S. N. on Board Flag-ship "Olympia," Manila
  • Mar 18: The Second Invasion of Cuba: Tourists from the "Paris" at Morro Castle, Santiago
  • Mar. 25: The Military Tournament, New York City, Exhibition Drill of Troop "H," 3d United States Cavalry
  • Apr. 1: Holy Week in the Philippines: The Good Friday Procession at Cavite
  • Apr. 8: "The True Jeffersonian Simplicity: Mr. Bryan Has a Little Dinner of His Own"
  • Apr. 15: An Incident in Rocky Mountain Sheep-Hunting
  • Apr. 22: Stephen Johnson Field: Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • Apr. 29: Manila: Insurgent Attack on the Barracks of Co. C, 13th Minnesota Volunteers, During the Tondo Fire
  • May 6: Manila: A Respite from War in the Sanctuary of Peace: American Soldiers Asleep in Binondo Church After the Fighting
  • May 13: The Philippines: Brigadier-General Loyd Wheaton, U. S. V., Ordering the Advance at Stone Quarry Hill 
  • May 20: Brigadier-General Frederick Funston, U. S. V.
  • May 27: Major-General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. V., in the Field, Giving Instructions to Major Fitzhugh of the Staff
  • Jun. 3: Major-General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. V.
  • Jun. 10: Admiral Dewey's Return: U. S. S. "Olympia" in Kau-Lung Dry Dock, Hong-Kong
  • Jun. 17: Wards of the Nation: Their First Vacation from School
  • Jun. 24: Launching of "Columbia," Built to Defend "America's" Cup Against Shamrock
  • Jul. 1: Admiral Dewey at Manila: A Visit to the Office of the Captain of the Port
  • Jul. 8: "Columbia," the "America's" Cup Defender
  • Jul. 15: The Navy
  • Jul. 22: Hoisting the Mainsail on the Cup-Defender "Columbia"
  • Jul. 29: Major-General Elwell S. Otis, U. S. V.
  • Aug. 5: "The Open Door"
  • Aug. 12: Admiral Dewey at Trieste
  • Aug. 19: The Cruise of the New York Yacht Club: A Pleasant Evening in Harbor
  • Aug. 26: Captain Alfred Dreyfus
  • Sep. 2: "Letting Him in on the Ground-Floor"
  • Sep. 9: For the Dewey Arch
  • Sep. 16: The Transvaal Crisis: President Kruger Entering the Central Bureau at Johannesburg
  • Sep. 23: "A Second Degradation"
  • Sep. 30: The Three Admirals of the United States Navy
  • Oct. 7: Admiral Dewey and Mayor Van Wyck Reviewing the Parade at the Triumphal Arch
  • Oct. 14: Boer Scouts on the Natal Border
  • Oct. 21: The Philippines: Maddened Carabaos Charging Our Advanced Firing-Line
  • Oct. 28: The War in South Africa: British Troops Repelling a Boer Attack
  • Nov. 4: The Democratic Donkey: "It May Be Sport for Them, But It's Death for Me!"
  • Nov. 11: Brigadier-General Frederick Funston, U. S. V.
  • Nov. 18: "A Fair Field and No Favor"
  • Nov. 25: "Why They Waited for News from Mafeking"
  • Dec. 2: Thanksgiving in the Olden Time
  • Dec. 9: The British Naval Brigade Passing through Ladysmith
  • Dec. 16: Santa Claus: "These New-Fangled Chimneys Are Very Trying to an Old Fogy Like Me!"
  • Dec. 23: "The Last Message"
  • Dec. 30: Major-General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. V.

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