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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.
Cover of Harper's Weekly, showing the bridge-burning conspirators swearing allegiance to the American flag. The East Tennessee bridge burnings were a series of guerrilla operations carried out during the American Civil War by Southern Unionists in Confederate-held East Tennessee in 1861.
The Mercer Girls on deck aboard the Continental, sketched by A.R. Waud for Harper's Weekly, 1866. [ 4 ] Due to the bad publicity by the time Mercer was to depart on January 16, 1866, he had fewer than 100 recruits, when he had promised five times that many.
Harpers Weekly's illustration depicting event of some 70 years earlier. The illustration is of a Roller Cotton Gin and not an illustration of a Whitney Spike Gin or Holmes Saw Gin. First use of the cotton gin - Our engraving on page 813 represents the primitive cotton-gin, which preceded the saw-gin invented by Eli Whitney toward the close of ...
Lawrence in ruins as illustrated in Harper's Weekly. The charred remains of the Eldridge House are in the foreground. Henry Thompson, a black servant from Hesper, attempted to run on foot to Lawrence to warn the town of hundreds of raiders making their way toward Lawrence. Thompson made it as far as Eudora, Kansas before stopping from exhaustion.
Throughout its existence, the weekly provided illustrations and reports—with wood engravings, lithographs and steel engravings based on sketches and photography, beginning with daguerreotypes and later with more advanced forms of photography—of wars from John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War to the Spanish–American War and ...
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George Adee of Yale. The 1894 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1894 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.