HARPER’S WEEKLY, NEW YORK, JULY 29, 1865 – FOURTH OF JULY

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Vol. IX—No. 448. 16 pp. [465-480], four columns, with numerous stories, illustrations and cartoons. Front cover features a story of 4th of July celebrations at Saratoga, NY, and a cartoon illustration of former a slave owner and former slave confronting each other on a plantation porch, w/caption: “The Great Labor Question From A Southern Point of View.”[Accompanied by Shakespearian quote; “Which is the Merchant here, and which is the Jew?”] Interior illustrations include: “The Grand Dinner Given to the Army of Tennessee at the Union Hotel, Saratoga, NY”—“Presentation of Two Hundred Battle Flags to Governor Fenton at Albany, New York”—“Saratoga Lake, July 4, 1865”—“Grand Ball at the Opening of Leland’s Opera House, Saratoga, July 4, 1865”. Also two illustrations of “The Destruction By Fire of Barnum’s American Museum, in New York, July 13, 1865”.

Exhibits mounting dots along left margin, and slight yellowing. Else near pristine, and smooth. Fine Harper’s Weekly collectible.

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